Ahaziah

• Reign of Ahaziah (Jehoahaz)c. 886 BC

Ahaziah· Jehoahaz· Azariah

Father

Jehoram

Mother

Athaliah

Spouse

Zibiah

Siblings

Jehosheba

Children

Joash

• אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ·Ahaziah
• יְהוֹאָחָז·Jehoahazmeans “possession of the Lord”
• עֲזַרְיָ֫הוּ·Azariahmeans “he that hears the Lord”

Includes 6 verses that refer to Ahaziah without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 2 Kings 8:24אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
   And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
2. 2 Kings 8:25אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
   In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
3. 2 Kings 8:26אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
   Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
4. 2 Kings 8:27Referred to, not named
   And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
5. 2 Kings 8:28Referred to, not named
   Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.
6. 2 Kings 8:29אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
   So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
7. 2 Kings 9:16אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
   Then Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel, because Joram was laid up there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.
8. 2 Kings 9:21אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
   “Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
9. 2 Kings 9:23אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
   Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
10. 2 Kings 9:27אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
11. 2 Kings 9:28Referred to, not named
    Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.
12. 2 Kings 9:29אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    (In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)
13. 2 Kings 10:13אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”
14. 2 Kings 11:1אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
15. 2 Kings 11:2אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.
16. 2 Kings 12:18אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
17. 2 Kings 13:1אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.
18. 2 Kings 14:13אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
19. 1 Chronicles 3:11אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
20. 2 Chronicles 21:17יְהוֹאָחָז · Jehoahaz
    So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.
21. 2 Chronicles 22:1אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
22. 2 Chronicles 22:2אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
23. 2 Chronicles 22:3Referred to, not named
    Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
24. 2 Chronicles 22:4Referred to, not named
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.
25. 2 Chronicles 22:5Referred to, not named
    Ahaziah also followed their counsel and went with Joram son of Ahab king of Israel to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. But the Arameans wounded Joram.
26. 2 Chronicles 22:6עֲזַרְיָ֫הוּ · Azariah
    So he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
27. 2 Chronicles 22:7אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
28. 2 Chronicles 22:8אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.
29. 2 Chronicles 22:9אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.
30. 2 Chronicles 22:10אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.
31. 2 Chronicles 22:11אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ · Ahaziah
    But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.
32. 2 Chronicles 25:23יְהוֹאָחָז · Jehoahaz
    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.