2 Chronicles · Chapter 22

[ edit] The dwellers forſoþe of Jeruſalem ſetten Ochoſiam, his leſte ſone, kyng for hym; alle forſoþe þe more þoruȝ birþe, þat beforn hym weren, þeeues of Arabes hadden ſlayn, þe whiche hadden fallyn in to þe tentis. And regnede Ochoſias, þe ſone of Joram, kyng of Juda. Of two and fourty ȝeer was Ochoſias, whanne he hadde begunne to regnen, and oon ȝeer he regnede in Jeruſalem; name of his modir, Aþalia, douȝter of Amry. And he wente in by þe weye of þe hous of Achab; forſoþe his modir putte hym in, þat he vnpitouſly ſchulde done.

Þanne he dyde yuel in þe ſiȝt of þe Lord, as þe hous of Achab; þei forſoþe weren to hym counſeilers after þe deþ of his fadir, in to his own deþ; and he wente in þe counſeyle of hem. And he wente wiþ Joram, ſone of Achab, king of Yrael, in to bataile aȝeinus Aſael, kyng of Cyrie, in Ramoþ-galaad. And Cyres woundiden Joram; þe whiche is turned aȝein, þat he were helid in Jezrael; forſoþe many woundis he hadde taken in þe forſeid ſtrijf. Þanne Ochoſias, king of Juda, þe ſone of Joram, came doun for to viſiten Joram, þe ſone of Achab, ſeeke in Jezrael; þe wille forſoþe of God was aȝeinus Ochoſiam, þat he were commyn to Joram.

And whanne he were commen, þat he ſchulde gon in wiþ hym aȝeinus Hieu, þe ſone of Nampſy, whome God anoyntide, þat he ſchulde don awey þe hous of Achab. Þanne whanne Hieu ſchulde ouerturnen þe hous of Achab, he fonde þe princis of Juda, and þe ſonus of þe breþeren of Ochoſie, þat mynyſtreden to hym; and he ſlewȝ hem. And hym Ochoſie ſechynge, he toke lurkyng in Samarie, and brouȝt forþ to hym he ſlewȝ; and þei birieden hym, forþi þat he was þe ſone of Joſaphaþ, þe whiche hadde ſouȝte God in al his herte. And þer was no more eny hope, þat eny ſchulde regnen of þe ſtoc of Ochoſie. Forſoþe Aþalia, his modir, ſeeynge þat hire ſone was deed, ros, and ſlewȝ al þe kingus ſtoc of þe hous of Joram.

Bot Joſabeþ, þe douȝter of þe kyng, toke Joas, þe ſone of Ochoſie, and ſche ſtaale hym fro þe myddis of þe ſonus of þe kyng, whanne þei ſchulde ben ſlayn; and ſche hidde hym wiþ his nurſche in þe bed place of lityl beddis. Joſabeþ forſoþe, þat hadde hydde hym, was þe douȝter of kyng Joram, wijf of Joiade, biſchop, ſiſter of Ochoſie; and þerfore Aþalie ſlewȝ hym not. Þanne he was wiþ hem in þe hous of God hid ſexe ȝeer, in þe whiche Aþalie regnede vpon þe lond.