2 Chronicles 22:2

Forty 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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Forty	אַרְבָּעִ֨ים 'ar.ba.'Im	H705	forty · noun, common masculine plural absolute
two	וּשְׁתַּ֤יִם u.she.Ta.yim	H8147	two · conjunction + noun, common feminine dual absolute
years	שָׁנָה֙ sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
old	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Ahaziah	אֲחַזְיָ֣הוּ 'a.chaz.Ya.hu	H274	Achazjah · proper noun, a man's name
reign	בְמָלְכ֔וֹ ve.ma.le.Kho	H4427	to reign · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
reigned	מָלַ֖ךְ ma.Lakh	H4427	to reign · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
one	אַחַ֔ת 'a.Chat	H259	properly · noun, common feminine singular absolute
year	וְשָׁנָ֣ה ve.sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular absolute
Jerusalem	בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם bi.ru.sha.Lim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · preposition + proper noun, a place name
mother’s	אִמּ֔וֹ 'i.Mo	H517	a mother (as the bond of the family) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
name	וְשֵׁ֣ם ve.Shem	H8034	an appellation · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
Athaliah	עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ 'a.tal.Ya.hu	H6271	Athaljah · proper noun, a woman's name
daughter	בַּת bat-	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · noun, common feminine singular construct
Omri	עָמְרִֽי 'a.me.Ri	H6018	Omri · proper noun, a man's name

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Cross-references

1 Kings 16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the d…
2 Chronicles 21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 22:1-9

We have here an account of the reign of Ahaziah, a short reign (of one year only), yet long enough, unless it had been better. He was called Jeho-ahaz (Ch2 21:17); here he is called Ahaz-iah, which is the same name and of the same signification, only the words of which it is compounded are transposed. He is here said to be forty-two years old when he began to reign (Ch2 22:2), which could not be, for his father, his immediate predecessor, was but forty when he died, and it is said (Kg2 8:26) that he was twenty-two years old when he began to reign. Some make this forty-two to be the age of his mother Athaliah, for in the original it is, he was the son of forty-two years, that is, the son of a…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 22:2

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign--(Compare Kg2 8:26). According to that passage, the commencement of his reign is dated in the twenty-second year of his age, and, according to this, in the forty-second year of the kingdom of his mother's family [LIGHTFOOT]. "If Ahaziah ascended the throne in the twenty-second year of his life, he must have been born in his father's nineteenth year. Hence, it may seem strange that he had older brothers; but in the East they marry early, and royal princes had, besides the wife of the first rank, usually concubines, as Jehoram had (Ch2 21:17); he might, therefore, in the nineteenth year of his age, very well have several sons" [KEIL] (…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 22:2

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah - See the note on Kg2 8:26. Ahaziah might have been twenty-two years old, according to Kg2 8:26 (note), but he could not have been forty-two, as stated here, without being two years older than his own father! See the note there. The Syriac and Arabic have twenty-two, and the Septuagint, in some copies, twenty. And it is very probable that the Hebrew text read so originally; for when numbers were expressed by single letters, it was easy to mistake מ mem, Forty, for כ caph, Twenty. And if this book was written by a scribe who used the ancient Hebrew letters, now called the Samaritan, the mistake was still more easy and probable, as the difference between cap…

Dictionary and topics

Ahaziah — Held by Jehovah. (1.) The son and successor of Ahab. He followed the counsels of his mother Jezebel, and imitated in wickedness the ways of his father. In his reign the Moabites revolted from under…
Baal · .By the Jews — .By the Jews
Kings · Who reigned over Judah: Ahaziah — Who reigned over Judah: Ahaziah

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Chronicles 22:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 22:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 22:2

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 22:2

Dictionary and topics

2 Chronicles 22:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 22:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 22:2

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 22:2

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 22:2

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 22:1-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 22:2-4

Rashi on 2 Chronicles 22:2