2 Chronicles 22

1The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:24 · 1Chr 3:11 · 2Chr 21:16 · 2Chr 23:3 · 2Chr 26:1 · 2Chr 33:25 · +1 more

2Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.Cross-references: 1Ki 16:28 · 2Ki 8:26 · 2Chr 21:6

3He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.Cross-references: Gen 6:4 · Gen 27:12 · Deut 7:3 · Deut 13:6 · Judg 17:4 · Neh 13:23 · +4 more

4He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.Cross-references: 2Chr 24:17 · Prov 1:10 · Prov 12:5 · Prov 13:20 · Prov 19:27

5He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:3 · 2Ki 8:9 · 2Ki 8:28 · 2Chr 18:3 · 2Chr 18:31 · 2Chr 19:2 · +3 more

6He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:29 · 2Ki 9:15 · 2Ki 10:13 · 2Chr 21:17 · 2Chr 22:1 · 2Chr 22:7

7Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Judg 14:4 · 1Ki 12:15 · 1Ki 19:16 · 1Ki 22:20 · 2Ki 9:1 · +6 more

8When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah serving Ahaziah, and killed them.Cross-references: 2Ki 10:10

9He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:21 · 1Ki 14:13 · 2Ki 9:27 · 2Ki 9:34 · 2Chr 17:3 · 2Chr 21:4 · +3 more

10Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.Cross-references: 2Ki 11:1 · 2Chr 22:2

11But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:13 · 1Ki 15:4 · 2Ki 11:2 · 2Chr 21:7 · 2Chr 23:1 · Ps 33:10 · +5 more

12He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.Cross-references: Ps 12:8 · Ps 27:5 · Ps 73:14 · Ps 73:18 · Jer 12:1 · Hab 1:12