2 Kings 8:25-29

25 ¹In the twelfth * year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

26 ²Ahaziah was twenty-two * years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

27 ³He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab had done, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

28 Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against ⁴Hazael king of Aram at ⁵Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.

29 So ⁶King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at ⁷Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then ⁸Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.

2 Kings 8:25-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of some advice Elisha had formerly given to the Shunammite woman, and of the success of it, 2Ki 8:1-6 and of the sickness of the king of Syria, who sent to Elisha, then being at Damascus, by Hazael, to know whether he should recover; by whom a message was returned, and Hazael was told by the prophet he should be king of Syria, and exercise great cruelty in Israel, 2Ki 8:7-15 and of the bad reign of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, over Judah, 2Ki 8:16-24 and of the reign of his son Ahaziah, 2Ki 8:25-29.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 22:1-6
• 2. 2 Chronicles 22:2
• 3. 2 Chronicles 22:3
• 4. 2 Kings 8:15
• 5. 1 Kings 22:3, 29
• 6. 2 Kings 9:15
• 7. 2 Kings 8:28; 2 Chronicles 22:5, 6
• 8. 2 Kings 9:16

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "smote"
• [b]. Lit "struck"