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Ahaziah
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or 1. Son and successor of Ahab, king of Israel, 1 Kings 22:51 2 Kings 1:1-18 . He reigned two years, alone and with his father, who associated him in the kingdom the year before his death, B. C. 894. Ahaziah imitated Ahab's impiety, and worshipped Baal and Astarte, whose rites had been introduced into Israel by Jezebel his mother. During his reign the Moabites revolted. Having joined the king Jehoshaphat in a commercial enterprise on the Red Sea, his impiety blasted the whole. After a fall from the gallery of his house, he sent to consult a god of the Philistines as to his recovery. Elijah the prophet foretold his speedy death-first to the messengers, and again to Ahaziah himself, after two companies of fifty had been consumed by fire from heaven.
2. Otherwise Jehoahaz, or Azariah, king of Judah, son of Jehoram and Athaliah; he succeeded his father B. C. 881,2 Kings 8:25 2 Chronicles 22:2 . He was twenty-two years of age when he ascended the throne, and reigned but one year at Jerusalem. He followed the house of Ahab, to which he was allied by his mother, and did evil. He met his death at the hand of Jehu, while in company with Joram, son of Ahab.
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Ahaziah'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/a/ahaziah.html. 1859.
