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OET-RV by cross-referenced section 2 KI 8:25

2 KI 8:25–8:29 ©

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Ahazyah reigns over Yehudah

2 Ki 8:25–29

2 Chr 22:1–6

25In the twelfth year of Ahab’s son Yoram’s reign over Yisrael, Yehoram’s son Ahazyah (Ahaziah) became the king of Yehudah. 26Ahazyah 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.) 27He 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. 28He joined Ahab’s son Yoram to battle against Aram’s King Haza’el at Ramot-Gilead, but the Arameans wounded Yoram. 29King 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.

22The 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. 2He 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. 3King Ahazyah behaved just like King Ahav’s family had done because his mother gave him evil advice, 4so 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. 5He 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. 6Yehoram 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.


22:1 Called Yehoahaz in 21:17 above. (Replace ‘Yeho’ at the front with ‘Yah’ at the end—the meaning ‘Yahweh has held’ remains the same.)

22:2 The Hebrew has forty-two here, but we’ve corrected it from 2 Kgs 8:26.