Ahaziah Succeeds Jehoram in Judah

24 So Joram [a]lay down with his fathers and (A)was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his son (B)Ahaziah became king in his place.

25 (C)In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. 26 (D)Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. 27 (E)He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

28 Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against (F)Hazael king of Aram at (G)Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans [b]wounded Joram. 29 So (H)King Joram returned to have himself healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had [c]inflicted on him at (I)Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then (J)Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 8:24 I.e., died
  2. 2 Kings 8:28 Lit struck
  3. 2 Kings 8:29 Lit struck

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