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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Chronicles 22 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 2 Chronicles 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/21.htm" title="2 Chronicles 21">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 22 <a href="../2_chronicles/23.htm" title="2 Chronicles 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_chronicles/22.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Ahaziah Rules in Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram’s youngest son, their next king, since the marauding bands who came with the Arabs<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram reigned as king of Judah.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Ahaziah was twenty-two<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of King Omri. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Ahaziah also followed the evil example of King Ahab’s family, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as Ahab’s family had done. They even became his advisers after the death of his father, and they led him to ruin.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Following their evil advice, Ahaziah joined Joram,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> the son of King Ahab of Israel, in his war against King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. When the Arameans<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> wounded Joram in the battle, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had received at Ramoth.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> Because Joram was wounded, King Ahaziah<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> of Judah went to Jezreel to visit him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But God had decided that this visit would be Ahaziah’s downfall. While he was there, Ahaziah went out with Joram to meet Jehu grandson of Nimshi,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> whom the LORD had appointed to destroy the dynasty of Ahab.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>While Jehu was executing judgment against the family of Ahab, he happened to meet some of Judah’s officials and Ahaziah’s relatives<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> who were traveling with Ahaziah. So Jehu killed them all. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Jehu’s men searched for Ahaziah, and they found him hiding in the city of Samaria. They brought him to Jehu, who killed him. Ahaziah was given a decent burial because the people said, “He was the grandson of Jehoshaphat—a man who sought the LORD with all his heart.” But none of the surviving members of Ahaziah’s family was capable of ruling the kingdom.</p><p class="hdg">Queen Athaliah Rules in Judah</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of Judah’s royal family. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Ahaziah’s sister Jehosheba,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king’s children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom. In this way, Jehosheba, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid the child so that Athaliah could not murder him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Joash remained hidden in the Temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">marauding bands of Arabs.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:2 </span><span class="ft">As in some Greek manuscripts and Syriac version (see also 2 Kgs 8:26); Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">forty-two.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:5a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Jehoram,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Joram; also in 22:6, 7.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:5b </span><span class="ft">As in two Hebrew manuscripts and Latin Vulgate (see also 2 Kgs 8:28); Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="it">the archers.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:6a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Ramah,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Ramoth.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:6b </span><span class="ft">As in some Hebrew manuscripts, Greek and Syriac versions, and Latin Vulgate (see also 2 Kgs 8:29); most Hebrew manuscripts read </span><span class="it">Azariah.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">descendant of Nimshi;</span><span class="ft"> compare 2 Kgs 9:2, 14.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:8 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version (see also 2 Kgs 10:13); Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">and sons of the brothers of Ahaziah.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:11 </span><span class="ft">As in parallel text at 2 Kgs 11:2; Hebrew lacks </span><span class="it">Ahaziah’s sister</span><span class="ft"> and reads </span><span class="it">Jehoshabeath</span><span class="ft"> [a variant spelling of Jehosheba].</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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