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2 Chronicles 22:2

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

KJV

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 22

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah - See the note on 2Ki 8:26. Ahaziah might have been twenty-two years old, according to 2Ki 8:26 (note), but he could not have been forty-two, as stated here, without being two years older than his own father! See the note there. The Syriac and Arabic have twenty-two, and the Septuagint, in some copies, twenty. And it is very probable that the Hebrew text read so originally; for when numbers were expressed by single letters, it was easy to mistake מ mem, Forty, for כ caph, Twenty.

This site's exposition

made Ahaziah his youngest son king

on 2 Chronicles 22:1-2

Only the youngest son is left to crown, since the Arabian raid already named at the end of the previous chapter had killed the elder brothers. Chronicles gives his age as forty and two, though 2 Kings 8:26 gives twenty and two, and the bench reads the gap as a scribal slip between the Hebrew letters for twenty and forty rather than two figures needing to be forced together. Matthew Henry offers a second reading, that the number first described Athaliah's own age as mother, since her rule over the reign is the verse's real subject either way.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Some make this forty-two to be the age of his mother Athaliah, for in the original it is, he was the son of forty-two years, that is, the son of a mother that was of that age; and justly is her age put for his, in reproach to him, because she managed him, and did what she would--she, in effect, reigned, and he had little more than the title of king.

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Forty two years - Some acknowledge an error in the transcribers of the present Hebrew copies, in which language the numeral letters for 22 and 42 are so like, that they might easily be mistaken.
Forty two and years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign--(Compare 2Ki 8:26). According to that passage, the commencement of his reign is dated in the twenty-second year of his age, and, according to this, in the forty-second year of the kingdom of his mother's family [LIGHTFOOT].
For “42” read “22” (see the marginal reference). Ahaziah’s father, Jehoram, was but 40 when be died 2Ch 21:20.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בֶּן־[was] a son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֨יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • וּשְׁתַּ֤יִםand two

    ushetayimH8147 →768 times

  • שָׁנָה֙year[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֣הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • בְמָלְכ֔וֹwhen became king he

    vemalekhoH4427 →348 times

  • וְשָׁנָ֣הand a year

    veshanahH8141 →877 times

  • אַחַ֔תone

    ʾachatH259 →971 times

  • מָלַ֖ךְhe reigned

    malakhH4427 →348 times

  • בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • וְשֵׁ֣םand [the] name of

    veshemH8034 →864 times

  • אִמּ֔וֹmother his

    ʾimoH517 →220 times

  • עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ[was] Athaliah

    ʾatalyahuH6271 →17 times

  • בַּת־[the] daughter of

    bat-H1323 →588 times

  • עָמְרִֽי׃Omri

    ʾameriH6018 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 8:26Ahaziah 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.3 works1 Kings 16:28And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.2 works2 Chronicles 21:6And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.2 works1 Kings 16:16and the people in the camp heard that Zimri had not only conspired but had also struck down the king. So there in the camp that very day, all Israel proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel.2 works1 Kings 16:23In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 21:6

    And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 18:1

      Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.

    • 2 Kings 8:18

      And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the…

    • 1 Kings 12:28–30

      After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out…

    • Nehemiah 13:25–26

      I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not…

    • 1 Kings 16:25–33

      But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.

  • Through

    2 Kings 8:26

    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.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 11:1

      When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

    • 2 Kings 9:21–27

      “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…

    • 2 Chronicles 22:5–8

      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;

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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