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2 Kgs 8:26

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Two and twenty.

In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is said, "forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;" but this is evidently a mistake, as it makes the son two years older than his own father!

For his father began to reign when he was thirty-two years old, and reigned eight years, and so died, being forty years old. See 2Kgs 8: 17, and the Note on 2 Ch 22:2. one year.

2Kgs 9:21-27; 2Chr 22:5-8

Athaliah.

2Kgs 11:1; 2Kgs 11:13-16

daughter. or, grand-daughter.

2Kgs 8:18