2 Chronicles 22:1-4

Ahaziah King of Judah

1 The people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram’s youngest son, king in his place, since the raiders, who came with the Arabs into the camp, had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

2 Ahaziah was twenty-two^[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

3 He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.

4 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father’s death they became his advisers, to his undoing.

2 Chronicles 22:1-4 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 22

In this chapter we have an account of the wicked reign of Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, 2Ch 22:1-4 of his death, the occasion and manner of it, 2Ch 22:5-9 and of his mother Athaliah destroying all the royal seed, excepting one, who was hid by the king's sister, and assuming the government to herself, 2Ch 22:10-12.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 33:25; 2 Chronicles 36:1
• 2. 2 Chronicles 23:20-21; 2 Chronicles 26:1
• 3. S 2 Chronicles 21:16-17
• 4. S 2 Chronicles 18:1
• 5. S 2 Chronicles 21:6

Footnotes

• [a]. Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 8:26); Hebrew "forty-two"