2 Chronicles 22:8

22:8 While Jehu was dishing out punishment to Ahab’s family, he discovered the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives who were serving Ahaziah and killed them.

2 Chronicles 20:35

20:35 Later King Jehoshaphat of Judah made an alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel, who ¹  did evil.

2 Chronicles 22:1

Ahaziah’s Reign

22:1 The residents of Jerusalem ²  made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. ³  So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 22:9

22:9 He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. ⁴  They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, ⁵  “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two ⁷  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter ⁸  of Omri.

2 Chronicles 22:10-11

Athaliah is Eliminated

22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line ⁹  of Judah. ¹⁰  22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ¹¹  the daughter of King Jehoram, ¹²  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ¹³  from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

2 Chronicles 20:37

20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because ¹⁴  you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ¹⁶  When Ahaziah ¹⁷  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ¹⁸  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “he.” The pronoun has been translated as a relative pronoun for stylistic reasons.

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

² tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

¹ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

² tn Heb “they said.”

³ tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”

¹ tc Heb “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.

¹ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum, “arise”) is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

² tn Heb “house of Judah.”

¹ sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

² tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “stole.”

¹ tn Heb “when.”

² tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”

¹ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “anointed.”

⁴ tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”