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2 Kings 9:29

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

KJV

And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

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Commentary

4 notes on this verse
In the eleventh year - The twelfth according to 2Ki 8:25. The discrepancy may be best explained from two ways of reckoning the accession of Ahaziah, who is likely to have been regent for his father during at least one year. See 2Ch 21:19.

This site's exposition

the eleventh year of Joram

The chapter dates Ahaziah's accession to Joram's eleventh year, where the previous chapter had given the twelfth, and the bench reads the two verses together rather than against each other. Barnes and Gill both take it as two ways of counting the same short reign, a co-regency year with his father counted once as eleventh and once as twelfth depending on which king anchors the count. Both readings stand on the same two verses.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. In 2Ki 8:25, it is said to be in the twelfth year of his reign; it was at the close of the eleventh, and the beginning of the twelfth; or he began to reign with his father in the eleventh as here, and in the twelfth as there, when his father was dead.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

In the eleventh year of Joram - The note in our margin contains as good an account of this chronological difficulty as can be reasonably required: Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his sickness; 2Ch 21:18, 2Ch 21:19. But in Joram’s twelfth year he began to reign alone; 2Ki 8:26.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וּבִשְׁנַת֙and in year

    uvishnatH8141 →877 times

  • אַחַ֣תone [plus]

    ʾachatH259 →971 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֣הten

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • שָׁנָ֔הyear

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • לְיוֹרָ֖םof Joram

    leyoramH3141 →20 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אַחְאָ֑בAhab

    ʾachavH256 →92 times

  • מָלַ֥ךְhe had become king

    malakhH4427 →348 times

  • אֲחַזְיָ֖הAhaziah

    ʾachazyahH274 →37 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יְהוּדָֽה׃Judah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

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 Chronicles 21:18–19After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.4 works2 Kings 8:25In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.4 works2 Chronicles 22:1–2Then 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.2 works2 Kings 8:16In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.2 works2 Kings 8:24–25And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.2 works

The walk

4 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 Kings 8:16

    In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 1:17

      So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of…

    • 2 Kings 3:1

      In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Jehoram son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twelve years.

    • 1 Kings 22:50

      And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.

    • 2 Chronicles 21:1–20

      And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

The Death of Jezebel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Jezebel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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