2 Kings 8:25-29
Christian Standard Bible
Judah’s King Ahaziah
25 In the twelfth year of Israel’s King Joram son of Ahab,(A) Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.(B) 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Israel’s King Omri.(C) 27 He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab,(D) for his father had married into[a] the house of Ahab.
28 Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against King Hazael(E) of Aram in Ramoth-gilead,(F) and the Arameans wounded Joram. 29 So King Joram returned to Jezreel(G) to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him in Ramoth-gilead[b] when he fought against Aram’s King Hazael.(H) Then Judah’s King Ahaziah son of Jehoram went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab since Joram was ill.
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2 Kings 8:25-29
New English Translation
Ahaziah Takes the Throne of Judah
25 In the twelfth year of the reign of Israel’s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoram’s son Ahaziah became king over Judah. 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter[a] of King Omri of Israel. 27 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of[b] the Lord, as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he was related to Ahab’s family.[c]
28 He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram. 29 King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians[d] in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit[e] Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.
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- 2 Kings 8:26 tn Hebrew בַּת (bat), “daughter,” can refer, as here to a granddaughter. See HALOT 166 s.v. בַּת.
- 2 Kings 8:27 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 2 Kings 8:27 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for he was a relative by marriage of the house of Ahab.” For this use of חֲתַן (khatan), normally “son-in-law,” see HALOT 365 s.v. חָתָן. Ahab was Ahaziah’s grandfather on his mother’s side.
- 2 Kings 8:29 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”
- 2 Kings 8:29 tn Heb “to see.”
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