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Ahaziah
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Ahaziah (â-ha-zî'ah). whom Jehovah holds. 1. The eighth king of Israel; he was the son and successor of Ahab. He reigned two years, alone and with his father, who associated him in the kingdom the year before his death. In the second year of his reign he fell through the lattice of an upper apartment of his palace, and died soon after, as Elijah had foretold, b.c. 895. Ahaziah imitated the impiety of his father and mother in the worship of Baal and Ashteroth. 1 Kings 22:40-51; 2 Kings 1:1-18; 2 Chronicles 20:35; 2 Chronicles 20:37. 2. The sixth king of Judah; he succeeded his father, and reigned only one year. 2 Kings 8:26. In 2 Chronicles 22:2, he is said, by an error of the scribes, to have been "forty-two years old" when he began to reign, which would make him two years older than his father. The correct age is "twenty-two," as stated in 2 Kings 8:16-26. Ahaziah was governed by his idolatrous mother Athaliah; he received his mortal wound by the command of Jehu, and died at Megiddo, b.c. 883. 2 Kings 9:27. In 2 Chronicles 22:9, the circumstances of the death of Ahaziah appear to be stated differently: but the account is only more full, and.follows the order of events. Ahaziah is also called "Jehoahaz," 2 Chronicles 21:17; 2 Chronicles 25:23; and "Azariah," 2 Chronicles 22:6.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Ahaziah'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/a/ahaziah.html. 1893.
