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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 Shomrom (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.
25 In the twelfth year of Ahab’s son Yoram’s reign over Yisrael, Yehoram’s son Ahazyah (Ahaziah) became the king of Yehudah. 26 Ahazyah was twenty-two when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for one year. (His mother’s name was Atalyah (Athaliah), the daughter of King Omri of Yisrael.) 27 He followed Ahab’s customs and did what Yahweh had said was evil like Ahab’s descendants, because he was a son-in-law of a descendant of Ahab. 28 He joined Ahab’s son Yoram to battle against Aram’s King Haza’el at Ramot-Gilead, but the Arameans wounded Yoram. 29 King Yoram returned to Yizre’el (Jezreel) to recover from the wounds that Arameans had given him at Ramah when he’d fought with Aram’s King Haza’el. Later, King Ahazyah of Yehudah (Yehoram’s son), went down to see (Ahab’s son) Yoram in Yizre’el because he was wounded.
21 “Quick, get my chariot ready!” Yoram ordered. They harnessed his chariot and King Yoram of Yisrael and Yehudah’s King Ahazyah both went out—each man in his chariot. They went out to meet Yehu and they found him at Navot’s field (the Yizre’elite). 22 When Yoram saw Yehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Yehu?”
“How could there be peace,” he answered, “when your mother Izevel is serving idols and embracing witchcraft?”
23 Then Yoram swung the chariot reigns around and fled, shouting to Ahazyah, “It’s treason, Ahazyah!” 24 Yehu grabbed his bow, and the arrow struck Yoram between his shoulder blades and came out from his heart, and he slumped down dead in his chariot. 25 Then Yehu said to his third officer Bidkar, “Pick up his body and throw it out into the field of Navot, the Yizre’elite. I’m sure you remember how you and I were riding as pairs after his father Ahab, when Yahweh said this against him: 26 ‘Yesterday I saw Navot and his sons killed here, declared Yahweh, and I will repay you in this very place, declares Yahweh.’ So now, throw his body down here because Yahweh declared that it would happen.”
27 Yehudah’s King Ahazyah saw that happen, and he sped away through the garden by a house with Yehu chasing after him shouting, “Get him too in his chariot when he starts climbing upwards to Gur near Yibleam.” So as he fled towards Megiddo, he was killed there, 28 and his servants took his body to Yerushalem, where they buried him in his ancestral tomb in the City of David.