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 did evil.
2 Chronicles 22:1
Ahaziah’s Reign
22:1 The residents of Jerusalem 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. 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.
They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned,
“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.
2 Chronicles 22:2
22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two
years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter
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 of Judah.
22:11 So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked 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. 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
you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the
Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea.
2 Chronicles 22:7
22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned to wipe out Ahab’s family.