2 Kings 9:29

29 (In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)

2 Kings 9:29 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 9:29

And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
] In ( 2 Kings 8:25 ) , it is said to be in the twelfth year of his reign; it was at the close of the eleventh, and the beginning of the twelfth; or he began to reign with his father in the eleventh as here, and in the twelfth as there, when his father was dead.

2 Kings 9:29 In-Context

27 Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after him and said, Put him to death in the same way; and they gave him a death-wound in his carriage, on the slope up to Gur, by Ibleam; and he went in flight to Megiddo, where death came to him.

28 And his servants took him in a carriage to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.

29 (In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)

30 And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

31 And when Jehu was coming into the town, she said, Is all well, O Zimri, taker of your master's life?