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2 Chronicles 22
New International Version

### Ahaziah King of Judah(A)(B)

22 The people(C) of Jerusalem(D) made Ahaziah, Jehoram’s youngest son, king in his place, since the raiders,(E) who came with the Arabs into the camp, had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

2 Ahaziah was twenty-two[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

3 He too followed(F) the ways of the house of Ahab,(G) for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly. 4 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father’s death they became his advisers, to his undoing. 5 He also followed their counsel when he went with Joram[b] son of Ahab king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead.(H) The Arameans wounded Joram; 6 so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramoth[c] in his battle with Hazael(I) king of Aram.

Then Ahaziah[d] son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab because he had been wounded.

7 Through Ahaziah’s(J) visit to Joram, God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. 8 While Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab,(K) he found the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives, who had been attending Ahaziah, and he killed them. 9 He then went in search of Ahaziah, and his men captured him while he was hiding(L) in Samaria. He was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He was a son of Jehoshaphat, who sought(M) the Lord with all his heart.” So there was no one in the house of Ahaziah powerful enough to retain the kingdom.

### Athaliah and Joash(N)

10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family of the house of Judah. 11 But Jehosheba,[e] the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes who were about to be murdered and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehosheba,[f] the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid the child from Athaliah so she could not kill him. 12 He remained hidden with them at the temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.

#### Footnotes

1. 2 Chronicles 22:2 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 8:26); Hebrew forty-two
2. 2 Chronicles 22:5 Hebrew Jehoram, a variant of Joram; also in verses 6 and 7
3. 2 Chronicles 22:6 Hebrew Ramah, a variant of Ramoth
4. 2 Chronicles 22:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 8:29); most Hebrew manuscripts Azariah
5. 2 Chronicles 22:11 Hebrew Jehoshabeath, a variant of Jehosheba
6. 2 Chronicles 22:11 Hebrew Jehoshabeath, a variant of Jehosheba

#### Cross references

1. 2 Chronicles 22:1 : 22:1-6pp — 2Ki 8:25-29
2. 2 Chronicles 22:1 : 22:7-9pp — 2Ki 9:21-29
3. 2 Chronicles 22:1 : 2Ch 33:25; 36:1
4. 2 Chronicles 22:1 : 2Ch 23:20-21; 26:1
5. 2 Chronicles 22:1 : S 2Ch 21:16-17
6. 2 Chronicles 22:3 : S 2Ch 18:1
7. 2 Chronicles 22:3 : S 2Ch 21:6
8. 2 Chronicles 22:5 : 2Ch 18:11, 34
9. 2 Chronicles 22:6 : 1Ki 19:15; 2Ki 8:13-15
10. 2 Chronicles 22:7 : 2Ki 9:16
11. 2 Chronicles 22:8 : S 2Ki 10:13
12. 2 Chronicles 22:9 : S Jdg 9:5
13. 2 Chronicles 22:9 : 2Ch 17:4
14. 2 Chronicles 22:10 : 22:10–23:21pp — 2Ki 11:1-21

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