22 The inhabitants of Yerushalem made his youngest son Ahazyah[fn] king in his place, because all his older brothers had been killed by the Arab invaders. So Yehoram’s son Ahazyah reigned as Yehudah’s king. 2 He was twenty-two[fn] when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for one year. His mother was Atalyah, a granddaughter of Yisrael’s King Omri. 3 King Ahazyah behaved just like King Ahav’s family had done because his mother gave him evil advice, 4 so he did what Yahweh had said was evil just like Ahav’s family, because after his father’s death, they had become Ahazyah’s advisors, giving destructive suggestions. 5 He followed their advice and joined King Yehoram (son of Yisrael’s King Ahav) to fight against Aram’s King Hazael at Ramot-Gilead, where Yehoram was wounded by the Arameans. 6 Yehoram returned to Yizreel to recover because he’d been wounded at Ramah in the battle against Aram’s King Hazael. So Yehudah’s King Ahazyah went up to Yizreel to see Yehoram.

7 God caused Ahazyah’s downfall through his visit to Yehoram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went with Yehoram to meet Nimshi’s son Yehu, who Yahweh had appointed to kill all of Ahav’s descendants. 8 While Yehu was executing judgement on Ahav’s descendants, he discovered Yehudah’s officials there, including Ahazyah’s nephews who’d been serving him, and he killed them all as well. 9 Then Yehu went searching for Ahazyah and found him hiding in Shomron (Samaria) city. They captured him and took him to Yehu, and killed him. They did bury him, because they said, “He was the grandson of King Yehoshafat who tried hard to please Yahweh.” After that, there were no descendants of Ahazyah who were powerful enough to become Yehudah’s king.