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So he returned to Jezre’el to recover from the wounds he had received at Ramah when he was fighting against Hazael king of Aram. Ahaziah[a] son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to visit Jehoram son of Ahab in Jezre’el because Jehoram had been wounded.

It was due to God that Ahaziah’s downfall came about when he went to visit Joram. After Ahaziah had arrived, he went out with Jehoram[b] to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. When Jehu was carrying out judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers,[c] who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 22:6 Ahaziah is the reading of some Hebrew manuscripts and ancient versions and 2 Kings 8:29. Most Hebrew manuscripts read Azariah.
  2. 2 Chronicles 22:7 Notice that two different names for the same king are used in one verse.
  3. 2 Chronicles 22:8 The parallel in 2 Kings 10:13 refers to brothers (or relatives) of Ahaziah, not to sons of the brothers. See 22:1.