^6 (A)Then he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And ^[a]Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

⁷ His going to Joram ^(B)was God’s occasion for Ahaziah’s ^[b]downfall; for when he arrived, ^(C)he went out with ^[c]Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, ^(D)whom the Lord had anointed to ^[d]cut off the house of Ahab. ⁸ And it happened, when Jehu was ^(E)executing judgment on the house of Ahab, and ^(F)found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who served Ahaziah, that he killed them.