2 Kings 9:29

29 Ahaziah had become Judah's king in the eleventh year of Ahab's son Joram.

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 Judah's King Ahaziah saw this and fled on the road to Beth-haggan. Jehu chased after him. "Do the same to him!" he commanded. They shot him in his chariot on the way up to Gur, near Ibleam. Ahaziah fled to Megiddo and died there.

28 His servants carried him back in a chariot to Jerusalem. He was buried in his tomb with his ancestors in David's City.

29 Ahaziah had become Judah's king in the eleventh year of Ahab's son Joram.

30 Jehu then went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard of it, she put on her eye shadow and arranged her hair. She looked down out of the window.

31 When Jehu came through the gate, she said, "Do you come in peace, Zimri, you master murderer?"