Ahaziah
(Hebrew: אֲחַזְיָהוּ, "held by Jehovah"; Douay-Rheims: Ochozias)
was the name of two kings:
Ahaziah of Israel
Ahaziah of Judah...
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AHAZIAH
a-ha-zi'-a ('achazyah and 'achazyahu, "Yah holds, or
sustains"):
I. Ahaziah.
Son of Ahab and Jezebel, eighth king of Israel (1 Ki 22:51
through 2 Ki 1:18).
1. His Reign:
Ahaziah became king over Israel in the seventeenth year of
Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned two years, 854-
853 BC. There is, here an incongruity between the ...
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1. King of Judah. Called AZARIAH and JEHOAHAZ
2Ch 21:17; 25:23
History of
2Ki 8:25-29; 9:16-29
Gifts of, to the temple
2Ki 12:18
Brethren of, slain
2Ki 10:13,14
Succeeded by Athaliah
2Ch 22:10-12
-2. King of Israel
History of
1Ki 22:40,49,51-53; 2Ch 20:35-37; 2Ki 1
Succeeded by Jehoram
2Ki 3:1...
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(sustained by the Lord).
1. Son of Ahab and Jezebel eighth king of Israel,
reigned B.C. 896-895. After the battle of Ramoth in Gilead,
in which Ahab perished [AHAB], the vassal king of Moab
refused his yearly tribute; comp.
Isa 16:1 Before Ahaziah could take measures for
enforcing his claim, he was seriously injured by a fall
through a latti...
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held by Jehovah. (1.) The son and successor of Ahab. He
followed
the counsels of his mother Jezebel, and imitated in
wickedness
the ways of his father. In his reign the Moabites
revolted from
under his authority (2 Kings 3:5-7). He united with
Jehoshaphat
in an attempt to revive maritime trade by the Red
Sea, which
proved a failure (2 Chr...
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("whom Jehovah holds".)
1. Son of Ahab and Jezebel; king of Israel; a
worshipper of Jeroboam's calves, and of his mother's idols,
Baal and Ashtoreth. After the Israelite defeat at Ramoth
Gilead. Syria was master of the region E. of Jordan; so Moab
(2 Kings 1:1; 2 Kings 3:5), heretofore tributary to Israel,
refused the yearly tribute of 100,0...
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And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of
Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the
gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the
LORD, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of
Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem....
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And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready.
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out,
each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met
him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite....
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And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to
Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits....
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