2 Kings 9:23

9:23 Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off.¹ He said to Ahaziah, “It’s a trap,² Ahaziah!”

2 Kings 9:29

9:29 Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

2 Kings 10:13

10:13 Jehu encountered³ the relatives⁴ of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, “Who are you?” They replied, “We are Ahaziah’s relatives. We have come down to see how⁵ the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons are doing.”

2 Kings 11:2

11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked⁶ him away 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.⁷ So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.⁸

2 Kings 1:18

1:18 The rest of the events of Ahaziah’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.⁹

2 Kings 8:24-26

8:24 Joram passed away¹⁰ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Ahaziah replaced him as king.

Ahaziah Takes the Throne of Judah

8:25 In the twelfth year of the reign of Israel’s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoram’s son Ahaziah became king over Judah. 8:26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem.¹¹ His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter¹² of King Omri of Israel.

2 Kings 9:16

9:16 Jehu drove his chariot¹³ to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating¹⁴ there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit¹⁵ Joram.)

2 Kings 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line.¹⁶

2 Kings 1:2

1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria¹⁷ and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,¹⁸ “Go, ask¹⁹ Baal Zebub,²⁰ the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

2 Kings 9:21

9:21 Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.”²¹ When his chariot had been hitched up,²² King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots²³ to meet Jehu. They met up with him²⁴ in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.

2 Kings 9:27

9:27 When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off²⁵ up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, “Shoot him too.” They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam.²⁶ He fled to Megiddo²⁷ and died there.

2 Kings 13:1

Jehoahaz’s Reign over Israel

13:1 In the twenty-third year of the reign of Judah’s King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehu’s son Jehoahaz became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria²⁸ for seventeen years.

2 Kings 14:13

14:13 King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He²⁹ attacked³⁰ Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet.³¹

2 Kings 8:29

8:29 King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians³² in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit³³ Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.

2 Kings 12:18

12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all³⁴ to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew³⁵ from Jerusalem.

¹tn Heb “and Jehoram turned his hands and fled.” The phrase “turned his hands” refers to how he would have pulled on the reins in order to make his horses turn around.

²tn Heb “Deceit, Ahaziah.”

³tn Heb “found.”

⁴tn Or “brothers.”

⁵tn Heb “for the peace of.”

⁵tn Heb “stole.”

⁶tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.

⁷tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.

⁷tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not recorded in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

⁹tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

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¹²tn Hebrew בַּת (bat), “daughter,” can refer, as here to a granddaughter. See HALOT 166 s.v. בַּת.

¹³tn Heb “rode [or, ‘mounted’] and went.”

¹⁴tn Heb “lying down.”

¹⁵tn Heb “to see.”

¹⁵tn 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.

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¹⁸tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”

¹⁹tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”

²⁰sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal corruption of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.

¹⁹tn The words “my chariot” are added for clarification.

²⁰tn Heb “and he hitched up his chariot.”

²¹tn Heb “each in his chariot and they went out.”

²²tn Heb “they found him.”

²¹tn Heb “and Ahaziah king of Judah saw and fled.”

²²tn After Jehu’s order (“kill him too”), the MT has simply, “to the chariot in the ascent of Gur which is near Ibleam.” The main verb in the clause, “they shot him” (וַיִּכְהוּ, vayyikhhu), has been accidentally omitted by virtual haplography/homoioteleuton. Note that the immediately preceding form הַכֻּהוּ (hakkuhu), “shoot him,” ends with the same suffix.

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²³map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

²⁵tc The MT has the plural form of the verb, but the final vav (ו) is virtually dittographic. The word that immediately follows in the Hebrew text begins with a yod (י). The form should be emended to the singular, which is consistent in number with the verb (“he broke down”) that follows.

²⁶tn Heb “came to.”

²⁷tn Heb “four hundred cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

²⁷tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

²⁸tn Heb “to see.”

²⁹tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.

³⁰tn Heb “went up.”