2 Chronicles 22:2–3

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two3 years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter4 of Omri. 22:3 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty,5 for his mother gave him evil advice.6

3	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.
4	tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165–66 s.v. I בַּת 1.
5	tn Heb “and also he walked in the ways of the house of Ahab.”
6	tn Heb “for his mother was his adviser to do evil.”