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Ahaziah was twenty-two years old[a] when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri. He, too, walked in the evil ways of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong. Yes, he was as evil as Ahab, for Ahab’s family became his advisors after his father’s death, and they led him on to ruin.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 22:2 twenty-two years old. Some manuscripts read “forty-two years old”; but see 2 Kings 8:26.

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