death_date burial_date reign native_lang_name father death_place title spouse image native_lang name caption predecessor birth_place issue successor mother burial_place article_title
c. 841 bce 841 bc c. 841 bce אֲחַזְיָה jehoram of judah megiddo , kingdom of israel king of judah zibiah ahaziah of judah.png hebrew ahaziah ahaziah '' , 1553 from guillaume rouillé 's '' promptuarii iconum insigniorum jehoram of judah jerusalem , kingdom of judah jehoash of judah athaliah athaliah city of david ahaziah of judah

ahaziah of judah

`` this entry is not about king ahaziah of israel . ''
ahaziah of judah -lrb- ; okhozias ; -rrb- or jehoahaz -lrb- ; -rrb- , was a king of judah , who had a brother called je · hoʹrama and athaliah , the daughter -lrb- or possibly sister -rrb- of king ahab of israel .
according to , ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king of judah and reigned for one year .
however , gives his age as 42 years when his reign began .
most scholars regard the 42 years in 2 chronicles 22:2 as a copyist 's error for an original 22 years .
the age of 22 is also found in some greek and syrian versions of 2 chronicles 22:2 .
william f. albright has dated his reign to 842 bc , while e. r. thiele offers the date 841/840 bc .
as explained in the rehoboam article , thiele 's chronology for the first kings of judah contained an internal inconsistency that placed ahaziah 's reign one year after his mother athaliah usurped the throne .
later scholars corrected this by dating these kings one year earlier , so that ahaziah 's dates are taken as one year earlier than thiele 's in the present article .
