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you will become very sick with a disease Ahaziah; and they caught him (he was hiding
of your intestines, until your intestines in Samaria), and brought him to Jehu. When
come out by reason of the sickness, day they had killed him, they buried him, “because,”
by day. they said, “he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who
sought the LORD with all his heart.”
16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against
So the house of Ahaziah had no one to
Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the assume power over the kingdom.
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Arabians who were near the Ethiopians. And 10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah
they came up into Judah and invaded it, and
carried away all the possessions that were saw that her son was dead, she arose and
found in the king’s house, and also his sons and destroyed all the royal heirs of the house of Ju-
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his wives, so that there was not a son left to him dah. But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the
except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole
18 After all this the LORD struck him in his him away from among the king’s sons who
intestines with an incurable disease. Then it were being murdered, and put him and his
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happened in the course of time, after the end nurse in a bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the
of two years, that his intestines came out daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada
because of his sickness; so he died in severe the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah),
hid him from Athaliah so that she did not kill
pain. And his people made no burning for him, him. And he was hidden with them in the
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like the burning for his fathers.
20 He was thirty-two years old when he house of God for six years, while Athaliah
became king. He reigned in Jerusalem eight reigned over the land.
years and, to no one’s sorrow, departed. Psalm 83:1–8
However they buried him in the City of David, A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
but not in the tombs of the kings.
Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem o not keep silent, O God!
22 made Ahaziah his youngest son king in D Do not hold Your peace,
his place, for the raiders who came with the And do not be still, O God!
Arabians into the camp had killed all the older 2 For behold, Your enemies make
sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of a tumult;
Judah, reigned. Ahaziah was forty-two years And those who hate You have lifted up
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old when he became king, and he reigned one 3 their head.
year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was They have taken crafty counsel against
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Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri. He also Your people,
walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his And consulted together against Your
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mother advised him to do wickedly. Therefore sheltered ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us
he did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the
house of Ahab; for they were his counselors cut them off from being a nation,
after the death of his father, to his destruction. That the name of Israel may be
He also followed their advice, and went with
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Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war
against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead;
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and the Syrians wounded Joram. Then he
returned to Jezreel to recover from the 83:4 cut them off. The hostile nations, under
wounds which he had received at Ramah, Satan’s influence,repudiated God’s promise to
when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. preserve forever the nation of Israel (Gen.
And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Ju- 17:7,8; Ps. 89:34–37).
dah, went down to see Jehoram the son of
Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
7 His going to Joram was God’s occasion for
Ahaziah’s downfall; for when he arrived, he 5 For they have consulted together with
went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of one consent;
Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut They form a confederacy against
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off the house of Ahab. And it happened, when You:
Jehu was executing judgment on the house of 6 The tents of Edom and the
Ahab, and found the princes of Judah and the Ishmaelites;
sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who served Aha- Moab and the Hagrites;
ziah, that he killed them. Then he searched for 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
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