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Ahaziah was the youngest son of king Jehoram of Judah. According to 2 Chronicles 21:16–17, his older brothers had been carried off in a Philistine and Arab raid. Under the influence of his mother Athaliah, Ahaziah introduced forms of worship that offended the Yahwistic party.
Jehu later threw his body on Naboth's vineyard, to avenge Naboth, whom Jehoram's father and mother had murdered. [7] King Ahaziah fled after seeing Jehoram's death but Jehu wounded him. Ahaziah fled to Megiddo, where he died. [5] Jehu proceeded to enter the premises of the palace at Jezreel.
2 Kings 10 is the tenth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Ahaz refuses, saying he will not test God (7:12). Isaiah replies that Ahaz will have a sign whether he asks for it or not, and the sign will be the birth of a child, and the child's mother will call it Immanuel, meaning "God-with-us" (7:13–14). [5] To protect himself Ahaz called in the aid of the Assyrians.
Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, seizes the throne after the death of her son and begins killing off members of the royal family. Ahaziah's sister, Jehosheba , manages to hide her nephew Joash . Seven years later, Jehosheba's husband, the priest Jehoiada , introduces Joash to the army, and informs all five units that they will now be required ...
The town of Libnah revolted during his reign according to 2 Chronicles 21:10 because he "had abandoned Yahweh, God of his fathers". Jehoram took to wife Athaliah, his namesake's sister and daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, "and he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab" (II Kings viii. 18, 27).
After Jehoram's death, Ahaziah became king of Judah, and Athaliah became queen mother, or gebirah. One year after taking the throne (2 Kings 8:26), Ahaziah and Joram of Israel were killed by Jehu, a general in Joram’s army acting on Yahweh's secret command to take vengeance against the impious kings. Afterwards, Jehu killed Jezebel and the ...
Three years later, Ahab died in battle. Jezebel's son Ahaziah inherited the throne, but died as the result of an accident and was succeeded by his brother, Jehoram. Jehu later usurped the throne [12] and killed Jehoram, and his nephew Ahaziah, who was the son of Jehoram's possible sister Athaliah and her Judahite husband Jehoram. He later ...