One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ahaziah. Every Ahaziah in the Bible
- verses
- 26
- first named
- 2 Kings 8:24
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 25:23
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Ahaziah?
Ahaziah, also known as Jehoahaz, was the son of Jehoram and Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab. He became the sixth king of Judah at the age of 22 and reigned for one year in Jerusalem. Ahaziah did evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the ways of the house of Ahab, as his mother Athaliah counseled him to do wickedly. (2Ki.8.25-27; 2Ch.22.1-4)
Ahaziah joined his uncle Joram, king of Israel, in a battle against Hazael, king of Syria, at Ramoth Gilead. Joram was wounded and returned to Jezreel to recover. Ahaziah went to visit Joram in Jezreel, where he encountered Jehu, who had been anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. Jehu pursued Ahaziah, and Ahaziah was wounded at the ascent of Gur. He fled to Megiddo, where he died. His servants brought his body to Jerusalem, and he was buried with his fathers in the City of David. (2Ki.8.28-29; 9.16,21-28; 2Ch.22.5-9)
After Ahaziah's death, his mother Athaliah seized the throne and destroyed all the royal heirs, except for Joash, who was hidden by Jehosheba. (2Ki.11.1-3; 2Ch.22.10-12) The short reign of Ahaziah was marked by the influence of his mother Athaliah and the house of Ahab, leading to his downfall and the near extinction of the Davidic line.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.
Child of
Father of
Partner of
- Zibiahregistry, no verse
Sibling of
Stands in the same events as
- Joram10 events
- Jehu4 events
- Judah3 events
- Jerusalem3 events
- Jehoram3 events
- Jezreel2 events
- Ramoth2 events
- Hazael2 events
- Megiddo2 events
- Samaria1 event
- Athaliah1 event
- Ibleam1 event
and 7 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Ahaziah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
26 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (15), 1 Chronicles (1) and 2 Chronicles (10).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 26, across 3 books. The name is written 33 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 2 Kings 8Ahaziah became king of Judah, joined Joram against Hazael, and went to Jezreel to visit the wounded king.
- 2 Kings 9Ahaziah rides with Joram, flees Jehu, is shot near Ibleam, and dies at Megiddo.
- 2 Kings 11Ahaziah’s son Joash was taken from among the royal heirs when Athaliah began murdering them.
- 2 Chronicles 22Ahaziah became king of Judah, followed Joram to war, visited him in Jezreel, hid in Samaria, and was put to death by Jehu.
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