2 Kings 8:25

In the twelfth year of Joram son of Achab king of Israel, reigned Ochozias son of Joram king of Juda.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

In Context

24And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ochozias his son reigned in Iris stead.

26Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.

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Cross References

2 Kings 9:29In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned over Juda,

2 Chronicles 21:20He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 8:17-25

The Reign of Jehoram. ( b. c. 884.) 16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the Lord . 19 Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his… Read the whole commentary →

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