22And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the band of men who had come with the Arabs to the camp had murdered all the older sons. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, reigned. ²Ahaziah was forty-two^a years old^b when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Athaliah, the daughter^c of Omri. ³He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for doing wickedness. ⁴And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as the house of Ahab had done, for they were his counselors to his destruction after the death of his father. ⁵He also walked in their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of Aram^d at Ramoth-Gilead. And the Arameans wounded Joram. ⁶And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds he had suffered at Ramah, when he made war against Hazael king of Aram.^e And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram son of Ahab in Jezreel for he was sick.

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Footnotes

aThe Septuagint reads “twenty-two” here
bLiterally “was a son of forty and two years”
cSome translations render the term “granddaughter”
dOr “Syria”
eOr “Syria”