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Ahaziah was twenty-two[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother[b] was Athaliah, the granddaughter[c] of Omri.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 22:2 tc Heb “forty-two,” but some mss of the LXX and the Syriac along with the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 read “twenty-two.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 22:2 tn Heb “The name of his mother.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 22:2 tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.