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Revised Standard Version

2 Kings 9:29

In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahazi'ah began to reign over Judah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahaziah;   Decision;   Elijah;   Homicide;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jehu;   Jezreel;   Naboth;   Usurpation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elijah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jezebel;   Jezreel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehu;   Jezebel;   Jezreel;   Phoenicia;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jehoram;   Jezebel;   Jezreel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah;   Jezebel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Jehu;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah ;   Jezebel ;   Jezreel ;   Joram, Jehoram;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jehu;   Ramothgilead;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jo'ram;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jehu;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaziah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It was in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab that Ahaziah had become king over Judah.
Hebrew Names Version
In the eleventh year of Yoram the son of Ach'av began Achazyah to reign over Yehudah.
King James Version
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
English Standard Version
In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
New Century Version
(Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year Joram son of Ahab was king.)
New English Translation
Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.
Amplified Bible
In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.
New American Standard Bible
Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the eleuenth yere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab, began Ahaziah to reigne ouer Iudah.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.
Contemporary English Version
Ahaziah had become king of Judah in the eleventh year of the rule of Ahab's son Joram.
Complete Jewish Bible
It was in the eleventh year of Yoram the son of Ach'av that Achazyah had begun his rule over Y'hudah.
Darby Translation
(And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab had Ahaziah begun to reign over Judah.)
Easy-to-Read Version
Ahaziah had become king over Judah during Joram's eleventh year as king of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
Good News Translation
Ahaziah had become king of Judah in the eleventh year that Joram son of Ahab was king of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.
Literal Translation
And in the eleventh year of Jehoram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah reigned over Judah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ochosias reigned ouer Iuda in ye eleuenth yeare of Iora ye sonne of Achab.
American Standard Version
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
Bible in Basic English
(In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the eleuenth yere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab, began Ahaziahu to raigne ouer Iuda.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
King James Version (1611)
And in the eleuenth yeere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab, began Ahaziah to reigne ouer Iudah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in the eleventh year of Joram king of Israel, Ochozias began to reign over Juda.
English Revised Version
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
Berean Standard Bible
(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In the eleuenthe yeer of Joram, sone of Achab, kyng of Israel, Ocozie regnede on Juda.
Young's Literal Translation
And in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab reign did Ahaziah over Judah.
Update Bible Version
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
World English Bible
In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
New King James Version
In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.
New Living Translation
Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab.
New Life Bible
In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became the king of Judah.
New Revised Standard
In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now it was, in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, that Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned over Juda;
THE MESSAGE
In the eleventh year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.

Contextual Overview

16 Then Jehu mounted his chariot, and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahazi'ah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram. 17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." And Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" 18 So a man on horseback went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me." And the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back." 19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them, and said, "Thus the king has said, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me." 20 Again the watchman reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously." 21 Joram said, "Make ready." And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahazi'ah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. 22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jez'ebel are so many?" 23 Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahazi'ah, "Treachery, O Ahazi'ah!" 24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot. 25 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD uttered this oracle against him:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the eleventh: 2 Kings 8:16, 2 Kings 8:24, 2 Chronicles 21:18, 2 Chronicles 21:19, 2 Chronicles 22:1, 2 Chronicles 22:2

began Ahaziah: "Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his sickness." 2 Chronicles 21:18, 2 Chronicles 21:19,"But in Joram's twelfth year, he began to reign alone. 2 Kings 8:25.

Cross-References

Genesis 5:5
Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
Genesis 5:20
Thus all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.
Genesis 5:27
Thus all the days of Methu'selah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
Genesis 5:32
After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 9:11
I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:25
he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."
Psalms 90:10
The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. In 2 Kings 8:25, it is said to be in the twelfth year of his reign; it was at the close of the eleventh, and the beginning of the twelfth; or he began to reign with his father in the eleventh as here, and in the twelfth as there, when his father was dead.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the eleventh year - The twelfth according to 2 Kings 8:25. The discrepancy may be best explained from two ways of reckoning the accession of Ahaziah, who is likely to have been regent for his father during at least one year. See 2 Chronicles 21:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. In the eleventh year of Joram — The note in our margin contains as good an account of this chronological difficulty as can be reasonably required: Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his sickness; 2 Chronicles 21:18-19. But in Joram's twelfth year he began to reign alone; 2 Kings 8:26.


 
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