2 Chronicles 22 · Verse 2

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.

2 Chronicles 22:2, King James Version

2 Chronicles 22:2 in other translations

BSB	Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
WEB	Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
ASV	Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
YLT	A son of twenty and two years is Ahaziah in his reigning, and one year he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Athaliah daughter of Omri;
DARBY	Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Athaliah, daughter of Omri.
BBE	Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.
Webster	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.

What does 2 Chronicles 22:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign--(Compare 2Ki 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 (2Ch 21:17); he might, therefore, in the nineteenth year of his age, very well have several sons" [Keil] (compare 2Ch 21:20; 2Ki 8:17). Athaliah the daughter of Omri--more properly, "granddaughter." The expression is used loosely, as the statement was made simply for the purpose of intimating that she belonged to that idolatrous race.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah - See the note on 2Kgs 8:26. Ahaziah might have been twenty-two years old, according to 2Kgs 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 caph and mem is very small, and can in many instances be discerned only by an accustomed eye. The reading in 2Kgs 8:26 is right, and any attempt to reconcile this in Chronicles with that is equally futile and absurd. Both readings cannot be true; is that therefore likely to be genuine that makes the son two years older than the father who begat him? Apage hae nugae!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

2 Chronicles 22:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בֶּן\־ben-[was] a son ofH1121

אַרְבָּעִ֨ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705

וּשְׁתַּ֤יִםu.she.Ta.yimand twoH8147

שָׁנָה֙sha.Nahyear[s]H8141

אֲחַזְיָ֣הוּ'a.chaz.Ya.huAhaziahH274

בְמָלְכ֔וֹve.ma.le.Khowhen became king heH4427

וְשָׁנָ֣הve.sha.Nahand a yearH8141

אַחַ֔ת'a.ChatoneH259

מָלַ֖ךְma.Lakhhe reignedH4427

בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑םbi.ru.sha.Limin JerusalemH3389

וְשֵׁ֣םve.Shemand [the] name ofH8034

אִמּ֔וֹ'i.Momother hisH517

עֲתַלְיָ֖הוּ'a.tal.Ya.hu[was] AthaliahH6271

בַּת\־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323

עָמְרִֽי\׃'a.me.RiOmriH6018

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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 22:2

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 daughter of Omri king of Israel.
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 which was evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 3119, 3120. B.C. 885, 884. Forty and two.In the parallel passage, (on which see the Note) he is said to be only twenty-two; and this is doubtless the true reading, as it is supported here by several MSS. and Versions.
2Ki 8:26
Athaliah.
21:6; 1Ki 16:28

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Context

2 Chronicles 22:1
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
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.
2 Chronicles 22:3
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

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2 Chronicles 22:2 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Cuando Ochôzías comenzó á reinar era de cuarenta y dos años, y reinó un año en Jerusalem. El nombre de su madre fué Athalía, hija de Omri.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Achazia était âgé de 22 ans lorsqu’il commença de régner; et il régna un an à Jérusalem; et le nom de sa mère était Athalie, fille d’Omri.
German Elberfelder 1871	Jahre war Ahasja alt, als er König wurde, und er regierte ein Jahr zu Jerusalem; und der Name seiner Mutter war Athalja, die Tochter Omris.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Quadraginta duorum annorum erat Ochozias cum regnare cœpisset, et uno anno regnavit in Jerusalem: et nomen matris ejus Athalia filia Amri.