2. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.
3. He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.
4. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father’s death they became his advis0rs, to his undoing.