Judah’s King Ahaziah

25 In the twelfth year of Israel’s King Joram son of Ahab,(A) Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.(B) 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Israel’s King Omri.(C) 27 He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab,(D) for his father had married into[a] the house of Ahab.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:27 Lit for he was related by marriage to

Ahaziah King of Judah(A)

25 In the twelfth(B) year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah,(C) a granddaughter of Omri(D) king of Israel. 27 He followed the ways of the house of Ahab(E) and did evil(F) in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab’s family.

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