22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two 1 years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter 2 of Omri.
1 tcHeb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some mss of the LXX and the Syriac.
2 tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.