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2 Kings 8:25

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In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

KJV

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

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This verse in 2 Kings 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. He is called Jehoahaz, and said to be the youngest son of Jehoram, 2Ch 21:17.

This site's exposition

In the twelfth year of Joram

on 2 Kings 8:25-27

Ahaziah begins his one-year reign in the twelfth year of Joram of Israel, and the text names his mother for the first time: Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel. The formula walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord repeats almost word for word what was just said of his father Jehoram, and the text adds that Ahaziah is son in law of the house of Ahab as much as its grandson through his mother. Two generations of Judah's throne are now bound into Ahab's family by marriage, and the chapter states the fact twice in three verses rather than once.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Canaan, that fruitful land, was turned into barrenness, for the iniquity of those that dwelt therein. The famine in Samaria was soon relieved by the raising of that siege, but neither that judgment nor that mercy had a due influence upon them, and therefore the Lord called for another famine; for when he judgeth he will overcome.

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.

  • בִּשְׁנַת֙in year

    bishnatH8141 →877 times

  • שְׁתֵּים־two [plus]

    sheteim-H8147 →768 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֣הten

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • שָׁנָ֔הyear

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • לְיוֹרָ֥םof Joram

    leyoramH3141 →20 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אַחְאָ֖בAhab

    ʾachavH256 →92 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • מָלַ֛ךְhe became king

    malakhH4427 →348 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֥הוּAhaziah

    ʾachazyahuH274 →37 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוֹרָ֖םJehoram

    yehoramH3088 →29 times

  • מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָֽה׃Judah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

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 21:20

    Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 22:18

      Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas,…

    • Jeremiah 22:28

      Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

    • 2 Chronicles 28:27

      And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his…

    • 2 Chronicles 24:25

      And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his…

    • 2 Chronicles 23:21

      and all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet, because Athaliah had been put to the sword.

  • Through

    2 Kings 9:29

    (In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 21:18–19

      After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

    • 2 Kings 8:24–25

      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 Chronicles 22:1–2

      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.…

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on F. W. Farrar, The Second Book of Kings (Expositor's 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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