Ahaziah - Israel and Judah, the northern and southern parts of the divided Israelite kingdom, each had a king named Ahaziah. Ahaziah of Israel was the son of Ahab and Jezebel, and during his brief two-year reign (853-852 BC) he continued to promote his parents’ Baal worship (1 Kings 22:51-53). When the godly King Jehoshaphat of Judah cooperated with the ungodly Ahaziah in establishing a shipping fleet, God wrecked the ships. It impressed upon Jehoshaphat that God did not want him to have any close association with Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 20:35-37). After an accident, Ahaziah sought help from Baal gods, but Elijah stopped him. Ahaziah then plotted to kill Elijah, but his plans ended in his own death (2 Kings 1:1-16). ... After Ahaziah’s death, his brother Jehoram (or Joram) became king of Israel (2 Kings 1:17). When Jehoram of Judah died, his son Ahaziah came to the throne (840 BC; 2 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 21:5-6; 2 Chronicles 22:1-2). Being very much under the influence of his mother, Ahaziah promoted Baal worship in Judah (2 Chronicles 22:3-4)

Ahaziah - The prophet Elijah announced Ahaziah would die because he sent for help from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, instead of from Yahweh. Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah of Judah, was the sister of Ahaziah of Israel. So, Ahaziah of Israel was the uncle of Ahaziah of Judah

Zibiah - Wife of Ahaziah king of Judah

Ahaziah - Ahaziah was prevented by a fall through a lattice in his palace at Samaria from enforcing it; but Jehoram his brother subsequently attempted it. Ahaziah sent to Baalzebub (lord of flies), god of Ekron, to inquire, should he recover? Elijah, by direction of the angel of the Lord, met the messengers, and reproving their having repaired to the idol of Ekron as if there were no God in Israel, announced that Ahaziah should die. ... So accordingly Ahaziah died. He was in alliance with Jehoshaphat in building ships at Ezion Geber to go to Tarshish; but the ships were wrecked, the Lord, as He intimated by Eliezer son of Dodavah of Mareshah, thereby manifesting disapproval of the alliance of the godly, with Ahaziah "who did very wickedly. Jehoshaphat therefore, when he built a new fleet of merchant ships (as the phrase "ships of Tarshish" means; the other reading is "had ten ships"), in which undertaking Ahaziah wanted to share, declined further alliance; bitter experience taught him the danger of evil communications (1 Corinthians 15:33). Azariah ("whom Jehovah helps," substantially equivalent to Ahaziah or Jehoahaz by transposition, a name sadly at variance with his character), in 2 Chronicles 22:6, may be a transcriber's error for Ahaziah. In 2 Chronicles 22:2, for 42 there should be, as in 2 Kings 8:26, "twenty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign," for his father Jehoram was only 40 when he died (2 Chronicles 21:20). ... Ahaziah walked in all the idolatries of Ahab his maternal grandfather, his mother being his counselor to do wickedly. He allied himself with Jehoram of Israel, brother of the former Ahaziah (in spite of the warning God gave him in the fatal issue of the alliance of godly Jehoshaphat, his paternal grandfather, with wicked Ahab), against Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead. Jehoram was wounded, and Ahaziah went to see him at Jezreel. In 2 Chronicles 22:9 we read Ahaziah was hid in Samaria, brought to Jehu, and slain. Ahaziah fled first to the garden house (Bethgan), and escaped to Samaria where were his brethren; thence brought forth from his hiding place to Jehu, he was mortally wounded in his chariot at the hill Gut beside Iblcam, and reaching Megiddo died there. Jehu allowed Ahaziah's attendants to bury him honorably in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David, "because, said they, he is the son grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. The recurrence of the same names Joram and Ahaziah in both the dynasties of Israel and Judah is a delicate mark of truth, it being the natural result of the intermarriages

Gur - At the ascent or 'going up to Gur' Ahaziah was slain in his chariot

Ahaziah - Ahaziah (â-ha-zî'ah). Ahaziah imitated the impiety of his father and mother in the worship of Baal and Ashteroth. Ahaziah was governed by his idolatrous mother Athaliah; he received his mortal wound by the command of Jehu, and died at Megiddo, b. In 2 Chronicles 22:9, the circumstances of the death of Ahaziah appear to be stated differently: but the account is only more full, and. Ahaziah is also called "Jehoahaz," 2 Chronicles 21:17; 2 Chronicles 25:23; and "Azariah," 2 Chronicles 22:6

Dod'Avah - (love of the Lord ), a man of Maresha in Judah; father of Eliezer, who denounced Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahaziah

Ahazi'ah - (Isaiah 16:1 ) Before Ahaziah could take measures for enforcing his claim, he was seriously injured by a fall through a lattice in his palace at Samaria. (1 Kings 22:49-53 ; 2 Kings 1:1 ; 2 Chronicles 20:35-37 ) ... Fifth king of Judah, son of Jehoram and Athaliah (daughter of Ahab), and therefore nephew of the preceding Ahaziah, reigned one year, B. Ahaziah was an idolater, and he allied himself with his uncle Jehoram king of Israel against Hazael, the new king of Syria. The revolution carried out in Israel by Jehu under the guidance of Elisha broke out while Ahaziah was visiting his uncle at Jezreel. As Jehu approached the town, Jehoram and Ahaziah went out to meet him; the former was shot through the heart by Jehu, and Ahaziah was pursued and mortally wounded

Ahaziah - Ahaziah . Ahaziah of Israel was the son of Ahab, and ruled after him only two years or parts of years. Ahaziah is accused of sending messengers to inquire of the celebrated oracle at Ekron, and is said unexpectedly to have received his answer from Elijah ( 2 Kings 1:1-18 ). Ahaziah of Judah was son of Jehoram and grandson of Jehoshaphat

Gur - A whelp, a place near Ibleam where Jehu's servants overtook and mortally wounded king Ahaziah (2 Kings 9:27 ); an ascent from the plain of Jezreel

Ahaziah - Ahaziah reigned two years, partly alone, and partly with his father Ahab, who appointed him his associate in the kingdom a year before his death. Ahaziah imitated his father's impieties, 1 Kings 22:52 , &c, and paid his adorations to Baal and Ashtaroth, the worship of whom had been introduced into Israel by Jezebel his mother. Ahaziah had not leisure or power to reduce them, 2 Kings 1:1-2 , &c, for, about the same time, having fallen through a lattice from the top of his house, he was considerably injured, and sent messengers to Ekron to consult Baalzebub, the god of that place, whether he should recover, 2 Kings 1:1-17 . Ahaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoram and Athaliah. Ahaziah, Joram's friend and relation, accompanied him in this war, and came afterward to visit him at Jezreel. Joram and Ahaziah, who knew nothing of his intentions, went to meet him. Jehu killed Joram dead upon the spot: Ahaziah fled, but Jehu's people overtook him at the going up of Gur, and mortally wounded him; notwithstanding which, he had strength enough to reach Megiddo, where he died

Dodavahu - Father of Eliezer of Mareshah, the prophet who censured Jehoshaphat for entering into alliance with Ahaziah ( 2 Chronicles 20:37 )

Joram - Finally, each reigned in proximity to a person named Ahaziah: Joram of Judah was succeeded on the throne by his son, whose name was Ahaziah; Joram of Israel came to the throne at the death of his brother, who was also named Ahaziah

Gur - ” An unidentified mountain road near Ibleam where Jehu's men caught up with and mortally wounded Ahaziah, king of Judah (841 B

Baalzebub - ' Josephus says with reference to king Ahaziah sending to this god, "Now it happened that Ahaziah, as he was coming down from the top of his house, fell down from it, and in his sickness sent to the Fly, which was the god of Ekron, for that was this god's name

Jeho'Ash - The eighth king of Judah; son of Ahaziah

Athaliah - On the accession of her son Ahaziah she became queen-mother, second only to the king in power and influence. When Ahaziah was slain by Jehu, she could not bring herself to take an Inferior position, and seized the throne for herself, making it secure, as she supposed, by slaying all the male members of the house of David so far as they were within her reach. The persons active in this were Jehosheba, sister of Ahaziah, and her husband Jehoiada, the chief priest

Beth-Haggan - ” King Ahaziah of Judah (841 B

Baal-Zebub - He was consulted by Ahaziah as to his recovery

Asaliah - 700 BCE) A member of Ahab's family, mother of King Ahaziah. After Ahaziah's death, she killed his potential heirs and ruled for six years, using her influence to suppress the true prophets and to support Baal worship. She was killed when Jehoiada revealed that Ahaziah's son, Joash, was still alive

Athaliah - 700 BCE) A member of Ahab's family, mother of King Ahaziah. After Ahaziah's death, she killed his potential heirs and ruled for six years, using her influence to suppress the true prophets and to support Baal worship. She was killed when Jehoiada revealed that Ahaziah's son, Joash, was still alive

Shearing-House, the - A place at which Jehu, on his way from Jezreel to Samaria, met and slew the brethren of Ahaziah, king of Judah ( 2 Kings 10:12 ; 2 Kings 10:14 )

Jehosheba - ” Sister of King Ahaziah who, after his death, took young Joash and protected him from Queen Athaliah so Athaliah could not have him killed as she did the other royal children (2 Kings 11:2 )

Jehosheba - On the death of her half-brother Ahaziah, she was instrumental in preserving the Davidic stock, by concealing the infant Jehoash in a lumber-room of the palace (RVm ^{Beth - "The garden house," Beth-haggan (2 Kings 9:27), by way of which Ahaziah fled; now Jenin, formerly EN-GANNIN, on the way from Samaria northward, overlooking the great plain}

Beth-Eked - Place where Jehu, after slaughtering all members of King Ahab's house in Jezreel, met representatives from King Ahaziah of Judah and killed them (2 Kings 10:12-14 )

Jehoahaz - Name given to Ahaziah in 2 Chronicles 21:17 . See Ahaziah, No

Jehoahaz - The first was the Judean king Ahaziah, for whom Jehoahaz was an alternative name. He reigned for only one year (842 BC; 2 Chronicles 21:16-17; 2 Chronicles 22:1; see Ahaziah)

Ahaziah - Elijah met the messengers on their road, and turned them back with a message to Ahaziah, reproaching him with his impiety, and telling him he should not recover from his sickness. Ahaziah, on finding by the description the messengers gave that it was Elijah, sent a captain and fifty men to seize him. The captain of the third fifty begged Elijah to spare their lives, which he did, and he went with them and delivered the message to Ahaziah. Ahaziah afterwards went to visit Joram, and God caused his death by Jehu when he cut off the house of Ahab

Jehosh'Eba - ) As she is called, (2 Kings 11:2 ) "the daughter of Joram , sister of Ahaziah," it has been conjectured that she was the daughter, not of Athaliah, but of Joram by another wife

Athaliah - This princess, being informed that Jehu had slain her son Ahaziah, resolved to take the government upon herself, 2 Kings 11; which that she might effect, without opposition, she destroyed all the children that Jehoram had by other wives, and all their offspring. But Jehosheba, the sister of Ahaziah, by the father's side only, was at this time married to Jehoiada, the high priest; and while Athaliah's executioners were murdering the rest, she conveyed Joash the son of Ahaziah away, and kept him and his nurse concealed in an apartment of the temple, during six years

Ahaziah - Ahaziah imitated Ahab's impiety, and worshipped Baal and Astarte, whose rites had been introduced into Israel by Jezebel his mother. Elijah the prophet foretold his speedy death-first to the messengers, and again to Ahaziah himself, after two companies of fifty had been consumed by fire from heaven

Baalzebub - Worshipped at Ekron; consulted by Ahaziah as to his recovery, for which Jehovah by Elijah declared he should die (2 Kings 1:2-3; 2 Kings 1:16)

Table of Kings And Prophets in Israel And Judah - ... 898... Ahaziah,... Elisha. ... 885... Ahaziah,... 884... Athaliah,... 884... Jehu,... 878... Jehoash,... Zechariah, son of Jehoiada

Engannim - In this quarter was "the garden house" (Beth-haggan) by way of which Ahaziah fled from Jehu (2 Kings 9:27)

Baal-Zebub - And this was the ridiculous idol worshipped at Ekron, to whom Ahaziah, king of Israel, sent to enquire concerning his recovery from a fall he had from his terrace. (See 2 Kings 1:2-3) How very sadly this weak prince answered to his name! The man that was called Ahaziah should have had better views of the Lord, Achaz and Jah, meant, vision of the Lord

Jehoshaphat - He was contemporary with Ahab, Ahaziah, and Jehoram. He built at Eziongeber, with the help of Ahaziah, a navy designed to go to Tarshish; but it was wrecked

Lattice - Perhaps the network through which Ahaziah fell and received his mortal injury was on the parapet of his palace

Athaliah - Athaliah was a strong influence on both her husband and their son, Ahaziah, who succeeded his father as king (2 Chronicles 21:4-6; 2 Chronicles 22:1-42Ch_22:10-12; 2 Chronicles 24:7)

Eliezer - Son of Dodavah: he was the prophet who rebuked Jehoshaphat for joining himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, for Ahaziah 'did very wickedly

Ibleam - It is mentioned also in 2 Kings 9:27 in connexion with the death of king Ahaziah, who fled by the way of Beth-haggan and ‘the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam

Megiddo - Here king Ahaziah died, and King Josiah was defeated, slain, and sorely lamented, 2 Kings 9:27 ; 23:29 ; Zechariah 12:11

en-Gannim - When Ahaziah, king of Judah, attempted to escape from Jehu, he "fled by the way of the garden house" i

Ekron - It was to Ekron that king Ahaziah sent to inquire of the god Baal-zebub if he should recover from his accident

Athaliah - Her pernicious influence drew into idolatry and crime both her husband and her son Ahaziah, 2 Chronicles 21:6 22:3

Ramoth-Gilead - A similar attempt was afterwards made by Ahaziah and Joram, when the latter was wounded (2 Kings 8:28 )

Jehoahaz - He is more frequently referred to as Ahaziah

Jehoahaz - The youngest son of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Chronicles 21:17 ; 22:1,6,8,9 ); usually Ahaziah (q

Beelzebul - As the Ekronite god was applied to by Ahaziah to east, out his disease, so the Jews taunted Jesus as using the same idol power to east out demons

Baal-Zebub - ” In 2 Kings 1:2 , a Philistine deity from which the Israelite King Ahaziah sought help after injuring himself in a fall

Athali'ah - ( 2 Kings 11:1 ) From the slaughter one infant, named Joash, the youngest son of Ahaziah, was rescued by his aunt Jehosheba wife of Jehoiada, (2 Chronicles 23:11 ) the high priest

Joash - In 2 Kings 11:2 , the infant son of King Ahaziah of Judah who survived the bloodbath carried out by Athaliah, the queen mother, following the murder of Ahaziah

Joash - son of Ahaziah, king of Judah. But Jehosheba, the sister of Ahaziah, and wife to the High Priest Jehoiada, rescued young Joash, then a child, from the cruelty of Athaliah, and lodged him in the temple with his nurse. Joash, to redeem himself from the difficulties of a siege, and from the danger of being plundered, took what money he could find in the temple, which had been consecrated by Ahaziah his father, Jehoram his grandfather, and himself, and gave the whole to Hazael

Baal Zebub - "... It is evident that Beelzebub was considered as the patron deity of medicine; for this is plainly implied in the conduct of Ahaziah, 2 Kings 1. Hence we probably see the reason why Ahaziah sent to Beelzebub to inquire the issue of his accident; since Beelzebub was Apollo, and Apollo was the god of physic

Jehosh'Aphat - His history is to be found among the events recorded in (1 Kings 15:24 ; 2 Kings 8:16 ) or in a continuous narrative in (2 Chronicles 17:1 ; 2 Chronicles 21:3 ) He was contemporary with Ahab, Ahaziah and Jehoram. (2 Chronicles 19:2 ) He built at Ezion-geber, with the help of Ahaziah, a navy designed to go to Tarshish; but it was wrecked at Ezion-geber

Jehoash - The son of King Ahaziah. He is one of the three kings omitted by (Matthew 1:8 ) in the genealogy of Christ, the other two being Ahaziah and Amaziah

Jeho'Ram - Son of Ahab king of Israel, who succeeded his brother Ahaziah B. he accordingly made an alliance with his nephew Ahaziah, who had just succeeded Joram on the throne of Judah, and the two kings proceeded to occupy Ramoth-gilead by force. Then followed invasion by armed bands of Philistines and of Arabians, who stormed the king's palace, put his wives and all his children, except his youngest son Ahaziah, to death, (2 Chronicles 22:1 ) or carried them into captivity, and plundered all his treasures

Jehoahaz - The same with Ahaziah and Azariah

Athaliah - She was married to Jehoram, king of Judah; and, when her son Ahaziah was slam by Jehu, she destroyed the rest of the royal family except Joash, an infant, who was concealed in the temple by his aunt Jehosheba (most likely not Athaliah's daughter), the wife of Jehoiada the high priest

Elie'Zar - (1 Chronicles 27:16 ) ... Son of Dodavah, of Mareshah in Judah, (2 Chronicles 20:37 ) a prophet, who rebuked Jehoshaphat for joining himself with Ahaziah king of Israel

Jeho'Ahaz - ... The name given, (2 Chronicles 21:17 ) to Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram king of Judah

Jehoash - When his father Ahaziah was killed, the mother of Ahaziah killed Ahaziah’s children and seized the throne of Judah

Elijah - His prophetic confrontations involved King Ahab and later his son Ahaziah. ... When Ahaziah fell and injured himself, he sent messengers to ask Baal-zebub (lord of flies) about his fate. Elijah intercepted them and sent word back to Ahaziah that he was soon to die (2 Kings 1:1 ). Ahaziah sent three different detachments of fifty soldiers each to arrest Elijah

Ramoth Gilead - Joram of Israel allied himself with Ahaziah of Judah (2 Chronicles 22:5-6), gained and kept Ramoth Gilead in spite of Hazael (2 Kings 9:14-15; Josephus Ekron - ... A shrine and oracle of Baalzebub was there, to which king Ahaziah applied for consultation in his sickness (2 Kings 1:2; 2 Kings 1:16)

Jehoiada - He preserved the life of Joash, the infant son of Ahaziah, and succeeded, with wisdom and energy, in placing him on the throne, and then caused the death of Athaliah

Jehoahaz - 2Ch 21:17 ; 2 Chronicles 25:23 = Ahaziah , No

Jehoshaphat - Having failed in a commercial enterprise with Ahaziah, he declined a second trial, 1 Kings 22:48,49 but united with Joram, his successor, in a war with Moab

Jeho-i'Ada - He married Jehosheba; and when Athaliah slew all the seed royal to Judah after Ahaziah had been put to death by Jehu, he and his wife stole Joash from among the king's sons and hid him for six years in the temple, and eventually replaced him on the throne of his ancestors

Ibleam - Jehu, in his coup against Jehoram, king of Israel, also mortally wounded Ahaziah, king of Judah, near Ibleam (2 Kings 9:27 )

Athaliah - Wife of Jehoram, king of Judah, and mother of Ahaziah, king of Judah

Jehu - Along the way, he was responsible for the deaths of Joram, king of Israel; Ahaziah, king of Judah; Jezebel, still powerful former queen of Israel, and some 70 surviving members of the household of Israel's late King Ahab

Ekron - Its local numen was Baal-zebub, whose oracle Ahaziah consulted after his accident ( 2 Kings 1:2 )

Jehoram - ... ... The son of Ahab and Jezebel, and successor to his brother Ahaziah on the throne of Israel. The Edomites revolted from under his yoke, and the Philistines and the Arabians and Cushites invaded the land, and carried away great spoil, along with Jehoram's wives and all his children, except Ahaziah

Joram, Jehoram - He succeeded his brother Ahaziah, king of Israel, and reigned twelve years, B. Joram and Ahaziah king of Judah went against the Syrians in Ramoth-gilead

Jehu - ... Joram’s mother Jezebel was with him at Jezreel; so was Judah’s king Ahaziah, who was a grandson of Ahab and Jezebel and a nephew of Joram. He also killed some relatives of Ahaziah whom he happened to meet (2 Kings 19:12-14)

Hazael - Soon after becoming king of Syria, Hazael joined in combat against both Ahaziah, king of Judah, and Joram, king of Israel (2 Kings 8:28-29 ; 2 Kings 9:14-15 )

Megiddo - Here Ahaziah fled from Jehu, and died here (2 Kings 9:27), in the kingdom of Samaria (2 Chronicles 22:9). (See Ahaziah

Genealogy of the Lord Jesus - ' Ozias is placed as the son of Joram, but on consulting 1 Chronicles 3:11,12 (where for Ozias is read Azariah, as also in 2 Kings 14:21 ), it will be seen that three kings are omitted, Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah. In 2 Chronicles 22:9 Ahaziah is called the son of Jehoshaphat; whereas he was his grandson; and by comparing the generations in 1 Chronicles 6:3-15 with Ezra 7:1-5 seven names will be found to be omitted in the latter

Athaliah - ... When her son Ahaziah was slain by Jehu, along with the brethren of Ahaziah and their sons (42 men), she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah (2 Chronicles 22:10). As queenmother she was determined to keep the regal power which she exercised during Ahaziah's absence in Jezreel (2 Kings 9:16). Ahaziah's youngest son Jonah alone escaped her murderous hand, secreted by Jehosheba, his aunt, daughter of Jehoram (probably not by Athaliah, but another wife) and wife of the priest Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 22:11-12)

Alliances - ... Jehoshaphat's alliance with ungodly Ahab and Ahaziah his son was the only blot on his character, and involved him in loss and reproof from God (2 Chronicles 18; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 20:35-37). Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram's marriage with Ahab's daughter, Athaliah, was fatal to him and to Ahaziah and his other sons except Joash (2 Chronicles 21; 22)

Counsel, To - A tragic example was the case of King Ahaziah of Judah, whose mother “was his counselor to do wickedly” ( Jehoram - Jehoram of Israel was a son of Ahab ( 2 Kings 3:1 ), and came to the throne after the brief reign of his brother Ahaziah

Ekron - Ahaziah, the son of King Ahab of Israel, called on the god of Ekron, Baal-zebub, when he was sick (2 Kings 1:2-16 )

Eliezer - The son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, who prophesied the destruction of the fleet of ships which Jehoshaphat built in co-operation with Ahaziah ( 2 Chronicles 20:37 )

Alpha - ... The Moabite stone of Dibon, probably of the reign of Ahaziah, Ahab's son, who died 896 B

Jehu - He slew Jorum, the reigning king, and mortally wounded Ahaziah, king of Judah, who was with him

Jehoash - Jehoash of Judah was the son of Ahaziah

Jezebel - Jezebel’s evil influence in the land of Israel, especially in combating the religion of Jahweh in the Interests of Baal-worship, was exercised not only during the twenty-two years of Ahab’s reign, but also during the thirteen years of the rule of her two sons, Ahaziah and Joram; moreover, this influence extended, though in a less degree, to the Southern Kingdom of Judah, where Athaliah, the daughter of Jezebel, seems to have followed in the footsteps of her mother ( 2 Kings 8:18 )

Joram or Jehoram - Son of Ahab king of Israel, succeeded his older brother Ahaziah in the throne, B

Jezebel - Daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, wife of Ahab king of Israel, and mother of Ahaziah, Joram, and Athaliah

Jehoram - He was the second son of Ahab and Jezebel, and became king when his older brother Ahaziah died as a result of an accident (1 Kings 22:51; 2 Kings 1:2; 2 Kings 1:17; 2 Kings 3:1)

Jehu - Jehoram and Ahaziah king of Judah (who had come to visit the wounded king) at once each in his own chariot issued forth to meet Jehu. Jehu then caused the death of seventy of the sons of Jehoram and forty-two of the 'brethren of Ahaziah' who came to salute the royal family; and slew all that remained to Ahab, his great men and his priests

Hazael - ... The next mention of Hazael shows him fighting at Ramoth-gilead against the allied armies of Joram, king of Israel, and Ahaziah, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:28-29 ; 2 Kings 9:14 ; 2 Kings 9:16 ); the narrative here breaks off to deal with other matters, and does not say what the result of the fighting was, but from Amos 1:3-53 ff

Baal, Baalim - It however revived again in Israel, and under Ahaziah and Athaliah extended also to Judah, and during the reigns of Ahaz and Manasseh worshippers of Baal are found there

Judah, Kingdom of - In spite of his pious efforts for the instruction of his people through the princes, Levites, and priests, in God's law (2 Chronicles 17), and for the administration of justice in the fear of Jehovah (2 Chronicles 19), his affinity with Ahab and Ahaziah nearly cost him his life at Ramoth Gilead (2 Chronicles 18), and again in the wilderness of Edom (2 Kings 3:8-11), and caused the loss of his ships in Ezion Geber (2 Chronicles 20:36-37). ... He was reproved by the Lord's prophet Jehu, after his escape at Ramoth Gilead (2 Chronicles 19:2-3); then when he renewed the alliance with Ahab's son Ahaziah, by Eliezer; at last he saw the fatal effects of alliance with the ungodly (1 Corinthians 15:33), and would not let Ahaziah's servants go in his ships (1 Kings 22:48). The alliance bore deadly fruit under his murderous son Jehoram, his grandson Ahaziah, and the bloody queen mother Athaliah, Ahab's daughter and Jehoram's wife (2 Chronicles 21-22). (See JEHORAM; Ahaziah; ATHALIAH

Megiddo - Here king Ahaziah ( 2 Kings 9:27 ) died; and the good king Josiah, interfering in a quarrel between Pharaoh-necho and the king of Assyria, and opposing the former’s progress in the dangerous passage of Megiddo, was also slain ( 2 Kings 23:29-30 , 2 Chronicles 35:22 ), to the grief of all Israel ( Zechariah 12:11 )

Joash - The son and successor of Ahaziah, king of Judah, called also Jehoash

Joash or Jehoash - He was the only son of Ahaziah who was not slain by the usurping Athaliah, his grandmother

Hazael - ... Hazael having murdered Benhadad became king, and fought with Ahaziah king of Judah, and Jehoram of Israel, for Ramoth Gilead (2 Kings 8:28). ... Joash saved Jerusalem only by "sending to Hazael all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah his fathers had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king's house" (2 Kings 12:18)

Jehu - Finding that neither of them returned, Joram himself, accompanied by Ahaziah, king of Judah, proceeded in his chariot toward Jehu, whom they met in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. Joram inquired, "Is it peace, Jehu?" To which the latter replied, "How can there be peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel, and her witchcrafts, are so many?" Joram instantly took the alarm, and, turning to Ahaziah, said, "We are betrayed. After this, Jehu proceeded to Samaria, and on his way thither met the friends of Ahaziah king of Judah, who were going to Jezreel to salute the children of Ahab's family, with the death of whom they were as yet unacquainted

Tarshish - "Ships of Tarshish" are mentioned often: Psalms 48:7, "Thou brakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind," alluding with undesigned coincidence to the event recorded 2 Chronicles 20:36-37; "Jehoshaphat joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel to make ships to go to Tarshish

za'Dok - ... According to the genealogy of the high priests in (1 Chronicles 6:12 ) there was a second Zadok, son of a second Ahitub son of Amariah, about the time of King Ahaziah

Jehoram - Succeeded his brother Ahaziah who had no son, 896 B. ... For the last year of his reign he synchronized with Ahaziah, Joram's son, slain along with him by Jehu (2 Kings 9). With Judah (whose territory Moab had invaded, 2 Chronicles 20, and so provoked Jehoshaphat) and Edom as allies, Jehoram warred against Mesha, who had since Ahaziah's reign (2 Kings 1:1) withheld the yearly tribute due to Israel, "100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams" (Keil) (2 Kings 3; Isaiah 16:1). ... Jehoram accordingly, in concert with Ahaziah of Judah, his nephew, seized it. ... They carried away his substance from his house, his sons, and wives, so that there was never a son left him save Jehoahaz (Ahaziah) the youngest (God for the sake of His covenant with David still leaving" a light to him and to his sons for ever": 2 Chronicles 21:7; 2 Samuel 7:12-13; Psalms 132:17), a retribution in kind for the murder of his father's sons. Jehoram and Ahaziah, confirms the truth of the sacred history

Azariah - Son of Jehoram, 2 Chronicles 22:6 : also called Ahaziah,q

Genealogy of Jesus Christ - But Joram really begat Ahaziah, Ahaziah Jehoash, Jehoash Uzziah

Esdraelon - Jehu killed his rivals Joram and Ahaziah at Jezreel (2 Kings 9:1 )

Jehoshaphat - Subsequently the king, forgetting what was due to the name of the Lord, associated himself with the wicked Ahaziah king of Israel in sending ships to Tarshish

Elijah - Six years later he denounces Ahab and Jezebel for their crimes in the matter of Naboth; and afterwards again is seen foretelling the death of king Ahaziah, and calling fire from heaven upon two bands of guards sent to arrest him

jo'Ash - Son of Ahaziah king of Judah (B

Moab And the Moabite Stone - Ahaziah, who succeeded Ahab to the throne of Israel, was unable to respond to Mesha's challenge because of an accident which led to his premature death (2 Kings 1:1 ). Later, when Jehoram followed Ahaziah to the throne of Israel and attempted to restore Israelite control over Mesha, he was unsuccessful (2 Kings 3:1 )

Megiddo - Later, the city was the place of death for the Judean king, Ahaziah, who was killed at the command of Jehu while fleeing from the scene of Jehoram's assassination (843 B

Wall - The goal was to force a breach wide enough for the troops to enter into the city; “And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits ^[1]” (2 Kings 14:13)

Elijah - Several years after occurred the prophecy of Ahaziah's death. 2 Kings 1:1-1 See Ahaziah

je'hu - (2 Kings 9:25 ) In the reigns of Ahaziah and Jehoram, Jehu rose to importance

Jehu - During the progress of a war against the Syrians, who were becoming more and more troublesome to Israel, in a battle at Ramoth-gilead Jehoram, the king of Israel, had been wounded; and leaving his army there, had returned to Jezreel, whither his ally, Ahaziah, king of Judah, had also gone on a visit of sympathy with him (2 Kings 8:28,29 )

Jezebel - She survived Ahab 14 years, and still as queen mother exercised an evil influence in the courts of her sons Ahaziah and Joram of Israel, and in that of her daughter Athaliah's husband Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Chronicles 22:2)

Dibon - The revolt of Mesha (recorded on the stone) from Judah, to which he had paid a tribute of 100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams (2 Kings 3:4; Isaiah 16:1), was probably in Ahaziah's reign, who died 896 B. Hence, he was ready to ally himself to Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 20:85); then to Jehoram and Edom against Moab. The 40 years would be the round number for the 36 during which Omri, Ahab, and Ahaziah reigned

Jehoshaphat - Jehoshaphat allied himself with the wicked Ahaziah in this enterprise. )... Then Eliezer, son of Dodavah, prophesied," because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord shall break (the perfect is prophetical, not hath broken) thy works. Ahaziah in vain tried to induce Jehoshaphat to repeat the attempt

Ben-Hadad - ) After Ahab's death, Moab having revolted from Ahaziah and Jehoram, successive kings of Israel (2 Kings 1:1; 2 Kings 1:6-7), Ben-Hadad took advantage of Israel's consequent weakness, and after having been baffled several times by Elisha besieged Samaria a second time so straitly that mothers gave their own sons to be eaten, a horror similar to what occurred in later times in Titus' siege of Jerusalem

Zechariah - ... ... ... The son or grandson of Jehoiada, the high priest in the times of Ahaziah and Joash

Ahab - He frequently consulted with Yahweh's prophets (1Kings 20:13-14,1Kings 20:22,1 Kings 20:28 ; 1Kings 22:8,1 Kings 22:16 ), used the divine name in naming his children (Ahaziah, Jehoram, and Athaliah) and did not interfere with the execution of the priests of Baal after the contest on Mt

Azari'ah - (2 Chronicles 21:2 ) ... In (2 Chronicles 22:6 ) Azariah is a clerical error for Ahaziah

Jehoshaphat - ... Again he entered into an alliance with Ahaziah, the king of Israel, for the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir

Joash - Son of Ahaziah king of Judah

Elijah - 876 854), and is last seen in the reign of Ahaziah (854 853), although a posthumous activity is attributed to him in 2 Chronicles 21:12 ff. ... Ahaziah is a true son of Ahab and Jezebel. ’ Ahaziah recognizes the author of this message, and sends three captains of fifties to capture the prophet, who calls down fire from heaven on the first two

Chronology of the Biblical Period - ... SIGNIFICANT DATES IN OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE HISTORY... Periods of History... Critical... Traditional... Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)... 1700-1500... 2000... Exodus... 1290... 1450... Conquest... 1250... 1400... Judges... 1200-1025... 1360-1025... Kings... ... ... Kings of United Israel... Critical... Traditional... Saul... 1025-1005... 1020-1004... David... 1005-965... 1004-965... Solomon... 965-925... 965-931... Kings of the Divided Kingdom... Judah... Israel... Critical... Traditional... Rehoboam... ... 924-907... 931-913... ... Jeroboam... 924-903... 926-909... Abijam (Abijah)... ... 907-906... 913-910... Asa... ... 905-874... 910-869... ... Nadab... 903-902... 909-908... ... Baasha... 902-886... 908-886... ... Elah... 886-885... 886-885... ... Zimri... 885... 885... ... (Tibni, 1 Kings 16:21 )... 885-881... 885-880... ... Omri... 885-873... 885-874... Jehoshaphat... ... 874-850... 873-848... ... Ahab... 873-851... 874-853... ... Ahaziah... 851-849... 853-852... Jehoram (Joram)... ... 850-843... 853-841... ... Jehoram... 849-843... 852-841... Ahaziah... ... 843... 841... Athaliah... ... 843-837... 841-835... ... Jehu... 843-816... 841-814... Joash (Jehoash)... ... 837-796... 835-796... ... Jehoahaz... 816-800... 814-798... Amaziah... ... 798-767... 796-767... ... Joash (Jehoash)... 800-785... 798-782... Uzziah (Azariah)... ... 791-740... 792-740... ... Jeroboam II... 785-745... 793-753... Jotham... ... 750-742... 750-732... ... Zechariah... 745... 753-752... ... Shallum... 745... 752... ... Menahem... 745-736... 752-742... Jehoahaz I (Ahaz)... ... 742-727... 735-715... ... Pekahiah... 736-735... 742-740... ... Pekah... 735-732... 752-732... ... Hoshea... 732-723... 732-723... Hezekiah... ... 727-698... 715-686... ... Fall of Samaria ... 722 ... 723/722 ... Manasseh... ... 697-642... 696-642... Amon... ... 642-640... 642-640... Josiah... ... 639-606... 640-609... Jehoahaz II... ... 609... 609... Jehoiakim... ... 608-598... 609-597... Jehoiachin... ... 598-597... 597... Zedekiah... ... 597-586... 597-586... Fall of Jerusalem ... ... 586 ... 586 ... BABYLONIAN EXILE AND RESTORATION UNDER PERSIAN RULE... Jehoiachin and leaders exiled to Babylon including Ezekiel... 597... Jerusalem destroyed, remaining leaders exiled to Babylon... 586... Gedaliah set over Judea... 58... Gedaliah assassinated... 581 (?)... Jeremiah taken with other Judeans to Egypt... 581 (?)... Judeans deported to Babylon... 581... Cyrus, king of Persia... 559-530... Babylon captured... 539... Edict allowing Jews to return to Jerusalem under Zerubbabel... 538... Temple restoration begun but quickly halted... 538... Cambysses, king of Persia... 530-522... Darius, king of Persia... 522-486... Haggai and Zechariah lead rebuilding of Temple... 520-515... Temple completed and rededicated... 515... Xerxes, king of Persia... 486-465... Artaxerxes I, king of Persia... 465-424... Ezra returns to Jerusalem and teaches the law... 458... Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem and rebuilds the walls... 445... NOTE: Overlapping dates of kings such as between Uzziah and Jotham result from coregencies, that is, a father installing his son as king during the father's lifetime and allowing the son to exercise royal power

Azariah - Son of Jehoram, king of Judah (852-841) according to 2 Chronicles 22:6 , but the correct name is probably Ahaziah as in 2 Kings 8:29

Elisha - The prophet then served faithfully during the reigns of Ahaziah (about 853 B

Elijah - Ahaziah, king of Israel, being hurt by a fall from the platform of his house, sent to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether he should recover. " The messengers of Ahaziah returned, and informed the king, that a stranger had told them he should certainly die; and Ahaziah knew that this was the Prophet Elijah

Elijah - Ahab’s son Ahaziah, who came to the throne after Ahab’s death, continued the worship of Baal and likewise met opposition from Elijah. God preserved Elijah from Ahaziah’s attempts to capture him, and then used Elijah to pronounce certain death upon the Baalist king (2 Kings 1:2-4; 2 Kings 1:13-17)

Angel - Often several messengers are sent together: “And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers ^{Moab, Moabites - Ahaziah succeeded Ahab, but it was not he that attacked Moab: his reign (called two years) and the beginning of the reign of Jehoram, would give Mesha time to strengthen himself against Israel and attack some of the outlying cities}

Jehoahaz - Ahaziah was his name as king (2 Chronicles 21:17)

Carmel - Here too the successive fifties of king Ahaziah, at Elijah's call, were consumed by fire from heaven

Samaria, Samaritans - ... Here Elijah destroyed the messengers of King Ahaziah, who were seeking the consultation of Baalzebub. He, likewise, prophesied of King Ahaziah's death (2 Kings 1:1 )

Go Down - Elijah told Ahaziah: “Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up …” (2 Kings 1:4)

Dwelling - The "lattice" through which Ahaziah fell perhaps belonged to an upper chamber of this kind, 2 Kings 1:2, as also the "third story," from which Eutychus fell. It may have been through this that Ahaziah fell

Damascus - Ahaziah, king of Judah (841), joined Joram, king of Israel (852-841), in battle against Hazael with Joram being wounded

Fire - A most impressive display of fire as an instrument of judgment is the destruction of the messengers of Ahaziah of Israel who attempted to seize Elijah the prophet only to be struck with fire "from heaven" (2 Kings 1:10,12,14 )

Seek - Thus, Ahaziah instructed messengers: “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease” (2 Kings 1:2)

Elijah - He also, four years afterwards, warned Ahaziah (q. His interview with Ahaziah's messengers on the way to Ekron, and the account of the destruction of his captains with their fifties, suggest the idea that he may have been in retirement at this time on Mount Carmel

Ahaz - Pekah took Elath, which Uzziah or Ahaziah had restored to Judah, a flourishing port on the Red Sea; "the Syrians" according to KJV "came and dwelt in it": or, reading (2 Kings 16:6) Adomim for Aromim, "the Edomites"; who also came and smote Judah on the E

Moab - The reign of Ahaziah was too short to make war with them; but Jehoram, son of Ahab, and brother to Ahaziah, having ascended the throne, thought of reducing them to obedience

Jehoiada - Married, king Jehoram's daughter, sister of king Ahaziah, on whose death by Jehu's hands the queen mother Athaliah slew all the seed royal; but Jehosheba stole Joash the youngest son, and with her husband hid him in the house of God six years

Elijah - Once more the prophet is seen, confronting Ahab's successor and son Ahaziah, who, following closely in his parents' steps, had sent messengers to Baalzebub the god of Ekron to inquire whether he should recover from his sickness

Elijah - Once more the prophet is seen, confronting Ahab's successor and son Ahaziah, who, following closely in his parents' steps, had sent messengers to Baalzebub the god of Ekron to inquire whether he should recover from his sickness

Chronology of the Old Testament - Yet we are told that Ahaziah, who followed Ahab after his death, came to the throne in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, and in addition that Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram, who could be crowned only after the two years’ reign assigned to the latter, succeeded in the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:41 ; 1 Kings 22:51 , 2 Kings 3:1 )

Israel, History of - Not only did Jehoram of Israel die; so, too, did Queen Jezebel, many of the Baal worshipers, and King Ahaziah of Judah, who just happened to visit his kin in Israel during the year of his coronation!... This struggle against Baalism was a key factor in the emergence of Israel and Judah's prophetic movement during the second half of the eighth century. During the ninth century crisis in Israel precipitated by Jehu's revolt in 842, King Ahaziah (842) of Judah was killed. Ahaziah's death resulted in the usurpation of Judah's throne by the Queen Mother, Athaliah (842-837)

Elijah - A contemporary of the Israelite kings Ahab and Ahaziah (874-852 b. Later, Elijah protested Ahaziah's appeal to Baal-Zebub, the local god of Ekron (2 Kings 1:9-15 ; Josephus called this god "the lord of the flies, " as did the Ras Shamra texts )

Moab - ) His first, step was, he secured the cooperation of Ammon and others enumerated in Psalms 83:8-7, in an invasion of Judah, which was before Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 20:1-35), therefore still earlier than the invasion of Moab by the confederate kings of Edom, Israel (Jehoram, Ahaziah's son), and Judah (2 Kings 3)

House - Ahaziah fell down from such an "upper chamber" with a projecting latticed window (2 Kings 1:2)

Houses - Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice or net, as the term שבכה , seems to import, through which Ahaziah, the king of Samaria, fell down into the court, 2 Kings 1:2

House - Instead of this parapet wall, some terraces are guarded in the same manner the galleries are, with balustrades only, or latticed work; in which fashion probably, as the name seems to import, was the net, or lattice,' as we render it, that Ahaziah, 2 Kings 1:2 , might be carelessly leaning over, when he fell down from thence into the court

Elijah - His successor Ahaziah after a two years reign, during which Moab rebelled, fell from a lattice and lay sick. Ahaziah, with his mother's idol-mad vindictiveness, sent a captain with fifty to arrest this "lord of hair" (Hebrew text: 2 Kings 1:8) whom he at once guessed to be Elijah

Chronology - Matthew 1:8) names are often passed over, a man being called "the son of" a remote ancestor, his father and grandfather and great grandfather being omitted; as Joram is followed by Ozias, Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah being omitted

Kings, First And Second, Theology of - , Ahaziah, Athaliah), while a struggle that did not effectively alter the international scene (e

Ships And Boats - An offer of Ahaziah to join in a renewal of the enterprise was afterwards rejected (1 Kings 22:43 ; 1 Kings 22:49 )

Tombs - , eleven (David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Ahaziah, Amaziah, Jotham, Hezekiah, Josiah; also the good priest Jehoiada) were buried in one common subterranean receptacle in "the city of David

Diseases - Ahaziah died following a fall from the upper portion of his home in Samaria (2 Kings 1:2-17 )

Pronunciation of Proper Names - In the middle of words, especially in words containing the Divine name Jah, the matter has already been settled for us, as it in most cases appears as iah , Ahaziah, Isaiah, Shemaiah

Kings, the Books of - The second period (1 Kings 12:1-2 Kings 10) comprises three stages:... (1) the enmity at first between Judah and Israel from Jeroboam to Omri, 1 Kings 12:1-16:28;... (2) the intermarriage between the royal houses of Israel and of Judah, under Ahab, down to the destruction of both kings, Joram of Israel and Ahaziah of Judah, by Jehu, 1 Kings 16:29-2 Kings 10;... (3) the renewal of hostilities, from Jehu's accession in Israel and Athaliah's usurpation in Judah to Israel's captivity in Hezekiah's sixth year, 1 Kings 11-17

Genealogies of Jesus Christ - ; the names Jehoiakim and Eliakim are inserted between Jechoniah and Josiah as if they referred to two different persons, instead of being two names for the same man; and also Amaziah, Joash, and Ahaziah between Uzziah and Joram (see Resch, TU ^{Create, Creation - , Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah between Joram/Jehoram and Uzziah/Azariah in 1:8-9; -->}