40 Ahab rested with his ancestors,(A) and his son Ahaziah(B) became king in his place.

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40 Ahab rested with his ancestors. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.

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17 Ahaziah died according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken. Since he had no son, Joram[a](A) became king in his place. This happened in the second year of Judah’s King Jehoram(B) son of Jehoshaphat.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:17 Lit Jehoram; 2Kg 8:16
  2. 1:17 LXX omits in the second year... Jehoshaphat

17 So he died,(A) according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken.

Because Ahaziah had no son, Joram[a](B) succeeded him as king in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:17 Hebrew Jehoram, a variant of Joram