2 Kings 8 · Verse 25

2 Kings 8:25

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.
2 Kings 8:25, King James Version

2 Kings 8:25 in other translations

BSBIn the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
WEBIn the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.
ASVIn the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
YLTIn the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel reigned hath Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah;
DARBYIn the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.
BBEIn the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;
WebsterIn the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

What does 2 Kings 8:25 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 8:25-29
Names do not make natures, but it was bad for Jehoshaphat's family to borrow names from Ahab's. Ahaziah's relation to Ahab's family was the occasion of his wickedness and of his fall. When men choose wives for themselves, let them remember they are choosing mothers for their children. Providence so ordered it, that Ahaziah might be cut off with the house of Ahab, when the measure of their iniquity was full. Those who partake with sinners in their sin, must expect to partake with them in their plagues. May all the changes, troubles, and wickedness of the world, make us more earnest to obtain an interest in the salvation of Christ.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Kings 8:25 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.

בִּשְׁנַת֙bish.Natin yearH8141
שְׁתֵּים\־she.teim-two [plus]H8147
עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה'es.RehtenH6240
שָׁנָ֔הsha.NahyearH8141
לְיוֹרָ֥םle.yo.Ramof JoramH3141
בֶּן\־ben-[the] son ofH1121
אַחְאָ֖ב'ach.'AvAhabH256
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
מָלַ֛ךְma.Lakhhe became kingH4427
אֲחַזְיָ֥הוּ'a.chaz.Ya.huAhaziahH274
בֶן\־ven-[the] son ofH1121
יְהוֹרָ֖םye.ho.RamJehoramH3088
מֶ֥לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428
יְהוּדָֽה\׃ye.hu.DahJudahH3063

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Kings 8:25

  • 2 Kings 9:29

    And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

  • 2 Kings 8:16-17

    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. Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chronicles 21:20-22:6

    Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings. 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. 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. He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A.M. 3119-3120. B.C. 885-884.
16,17; 9:29; 2Ch 21:20

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Context

  • 2 Kings 8:24

    And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 8:25

    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.

  • 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.

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2 Kings 8:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En el año doce de Joram hijo de Achâb rey de Israel, comenzó á reinar Ochôzías hijo de Joram rey de Judá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*La douzième année de Joram, fils d’Achab, roi d’Israël, Achazia, fils de Joram, roi de Juda, commença de régner.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Im zwölften Jahre Jorams, des Sohnes Ahabs, des Königs von Israel, wurde Ahasja König, der Sohn Jorams, des Königs von Juda.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Anno duodecimo Joram filii Achab regis Israël regnavit Ochozias filius Joram regis Judæ.