People of the Bible › Ahaziah
Ahaziah אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ
King of N. Israel. Ahaziah, son of Ahab, reigned as king of Israel for two years.
Family
Where Ahaziah appears
1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (2)
Key verses
- 1 Kings 22:40 first mention — So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
- 1 Kings 22:49 — Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
- 1 Kings 22:51 — Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
- 2 Kings 1:2 — And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
- 2 Kings 1:18 — Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Chronicles 20:35 — And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
- 2 Chronicles 20:37 — Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.