Text: 2 Chronicles 22:1
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 8:25
Subject: rule of Ahaziah of Judah
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Both texts introduce Ahaziah of Judah's brief reign. Kings says he was 22 years old at accession; Chronicles says 42 — a well-known numerical discrepancy likely due to a scribal error. Both agree on his mother Athaliah (granddaughter of Omri), his evil conduct, and his alliance with Joram of Israel. The Chronicler adds the crucial theological note: "His mother was his counselor to do wickedly" (2 Chr 22:3), and "he walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor after the death of his father" — making Athaliah's influence the explicit cause of his apostasy.