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.