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Ahaziah, King of Judah(A)

22 Then those in Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place because the raiding party, those coming with the Arabians to the camp, killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram reigned in Jerusalem.

Now Ahaziah was forty-two years[a] old when he began to reign, but he only reigned one year in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

And he also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab because his mother was the one counseling him to do evil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 22:2 2Ki 8:26 reads twenty-two years.