2 Chronicles 22:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 Then he looked for Ahaziah himself. They caught him hiding in Samaria and brought him to Jehu, who put him to death. They buried him, for they said, “He was the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.”(A) Now the house of Ahaziah did not retain the power of kingship.[a]
Usurpation of Athaliah. 10 (B)When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family of the house of Judah. 11 But Jehosheba, a daughter of the king, took Joash, Ahaziah’s son, and spirited him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. In this way Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, a sister of Ahaziah and wife of Jehoiada the priest, concealed the child from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.
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- 22:9 This account of the death of Ahaziah of Judah does not agree with that given in 2 Kgs 9:27–28.
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