Ahaziah
King of Judah · 885–884 BC
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His Reign
- Reigned
- one year 2 Kings 8:26
- Began to Reign
- Two and twenty years old 2 Kings 8:26
- Began
- in Jehoram’s 12th year 2 Kings 8:25
- Began
- in Jehoram’s 11th year 2 Kings 9:29
- His Mother
- Athaliah 2 Kings 8:26
- Before Him
- Jehoram
- After Him
- Athaliah
In the Sight of the LORD
“did evil in the sight of the LORD” 2 Kings 8:27
Ussher’s Years
- Viceroy for His Father 886–885 BC
- “Jehoram being thus afflicted with sicknesse, made his son Ahazia, his Vice-roy”
- Began to Reign 885–884 BC
- “After whom succeeded his son Achazia, in the 12 year of Ioram the son of Achab”
Made viceroy in his father's sickness, in the eleventh year of Joram (2 Kings 9:29); king the next year, the twelfth (2 Kings 8:25).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
In Israel in His Day
Where His Reign Is Told
Difficult Passages
Was Jehoram’s youngest son Jehoahaz or Ahaziah?
They are one man: Jehoahaz and Ahaziah are the same two words, “the LORD” and “hath laid hold,” in the other order.
