2 Chronicles 22 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Ahaziah Reigns in Judah

(2 Kin. 8:25–29; 9:14–16, 27–29 )

2Ch 22:1Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the raiders who came with the Arabians into the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, reigned.

2Ch 22:2

2Ch 22:2Ahaziah was forty-two[fn] years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri.

2Ch 22:3

2Ch 22:3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly.

2Ch 22:4

2Ch 22:4Therefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

2Ch 22:5

2Ch 22:5He also followed their advice, and went with Jehoram[fn] the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

2Ch 22:6

2Ch 22:6Then he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah[fn] the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

2Ch 22:7

2Ch 22:7His going to Joram was God’s occasion for Ahaziah’s downfall; for when he arrived, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

2Ch 22:8

2Ch 22:8And it happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who served Ahaziah, that he killed them.

2Ch 22:9

2Ch 22:9Then he searched for Ahaziah; and they caught him (he was hiding in Samaria), and brought him to Jehu. When they had killed him, they buried him, “because,” they said, “he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So the house of Ahaziah had no one to assume power over the kingdom.

Athaliah Reigns in Judah

(2 Kin. 11:1–3 )

2Ch 22:10

2Ch 22:10Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

2Ch 22:11

2Ch 22:11But Jehoshabeath,[fn] the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being murdered, and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.

2Ch 22:12

2Ch 22:12And he was hidden with them in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.

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NKJV Footnotes

(22:2)

Or twenty-two (compare 2 Kings 8:26)

(22:5)

Also spelled Joram (compare verses 5 and 7; 2 Kings 8:28; and elsewhere)

(22:6)

Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, and 2 Kings 8:29 read Ahaziah.

(22:11)

Spelled Jehosheba in 2 Kings 11:2

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