Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageAhaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for just one year. His mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAchazyahu was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Yerushalayim. His mother's name was Atalyah, granddaughter of Omri.
KJV
King James VersionForty 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.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleAhaziah 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.
Footnotes
The Masoretic Text reads 'forty-two' (אַרְבָּעִים וּשְׁתַּיִם, *arba'im u'shtayim*), but this is chronologically impossible — Jehoram his father died at age forty (2 Chron. 21:20), meaning Ahaziah cannot have been two years his father's senior. The parallel in 2 Kings 8:26 reads 'twenty-two,' almost certainly the original figure, with the Masoretic number resulting from a scribal confusion of *mem* (40) for *kaf* (20). Both translations follow the corrected reading. The Chronicler identifies Athaliah as the daughter of Omri rather than of Ahab — likely deploying 'Omri' as the dynastic name for the northern house, the regime whose corruption now poisons Judah.
