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Ozias ben Jehoram 6th King of Judea 8th King of Israel
- Preferred Name: Ozias ben Jehoram 6th King of Judea 8th King of Israel[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- Birth: in Jerusalém, Israel at LATI: N1.7804 LONG: E5.2177 with note: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/164660200?cid=mem_copy
- Tribe Name: with note: Description: Judah
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 6th King of JudeaBET 842 BC AND 841 BC in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire at LATI: N1.7833 LONG: E5.2333 with note:
- Burial: 842 BC in King's Sepulchre, City of David, Jerusalem, Judah at LATI: N1.7648 LONG: E4.9948 with note: Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology, pg 140
- Houses+of+David+and+Omri+: with note: Description: He was also the first Judahite king to be descended from both the House of David and the House of Omri, through his mother and successor, Athaliah.
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 8th King of IsraelBET 842 BC AND 841 BC
- Brothers+of+Ahaziah+: with note: Description: Ahaziah was the youngest son of Jehoram of Judah. According to 2 Chronicles 21:16-17, his older brothers had been carried off in a Philistine and Arab raid.
- Death: 842 BC in Megiddo, Hazafon, Kingdom of Israel at LATI: N2.5786 LONG: E5.1807 with note: Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology, pg 140
0831 BC
killed by Yehu (King of Israel)
- FSID: L2PC-RHY
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Ahaziah of the Bible King of Israel/Judah (BC 906-884)
Born: abt. 893 BC Died: abt. 841 BC slain by Yehu (King of Israel)
Kurzbiografie
Wikipedia: Ahaziah & המלך אחזיה
22 year old son of King Jehoram and mother Athaliah, became king in 842 BC, and was killed less than one year later. His mother and wife of King Jehoram, took the throne as Queen Athaliah in 842BC, and reigned until she was executed in 837BC.
Born 906 BC. He was 22 years old when he became king & reigned 1 year in Jerusalem. His mother, Athaliah, encouraged him to do wrong. Died 985 BC. Wounded by Jehu at Jezreel. He fled to Megiddo where he died & his body was taken to Jerusalem.
Figlio di Ioram (3) e Atalia (1); re di Giuda (1)(841 a.C.). Marito di Sibia (2), fratello di Ioseba e padre di Ioas (7). Fece ciò che è male agli occhi del Signore, seguendo l'esempio della casa di Acab (1) con cui era imparentato. Combatté contro la Siria con Ioram (4) re di Israele, e fu ucciso insieme a lui (e ai suoi fratelli) da Ieu (5) 2Re 8:24-29; 9:16-29; 10:13-14; 11:1-2; 1Cr 3:11; 2Cr 22:1-11. Chiamato anche Ioacaz 2Cr 21:17; 25:23.
Ahaziah is one of three generations dropped by Matthew between Ozias and Joram
Jehoram, father of Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 22:1) 1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
Ahaziah (GCQX-G7B), father of Joash (GCQF-M3G) (2 Chronicles 22:9/24:1) 9 And he sought Ahaziah (GCQX-G7B): and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat (GCQX-RZG), who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom. 1 Joash (GCQF-M3G) was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Zibiah (G8XN-Q4P) of Beer-sheba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahaziah_of_Judah
Ahaziah of Judah (Hebrew: אֲחַזְיָה, ʼĂḥazyā; Greek: Οχοζιας Okhozias; Latin: Ahazia)[1] or Jehoahaz I (2 Chronicles 21:17; 25:23), was the sixth king of Judah, and the son of Jehoram and Athaliah, the daughter (or possibly sister) of king Ahab of Israel. He was also the first Judahite king to be descended from both the House of David and the House of Omri, through his mother and successor, Athaliah.
According to 2 Kings 8:26, Ahaziah was 22 years old when he began to reign, and reigned for one year in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 22:2 gives his age as 42 years when his reign began in Jerusalem. Most scholars regard the 42 years in 2 Chronicles 22:2 as a copyist's error for an original 22 years. The age of 22 is also found in some Greek and Syrian versions of 2 Chronicles 22:2.
William F. Albright has dated his reign to 842 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the date 841/840 BC.[2] As explained in the Rehoboam article, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency that placed Ahaziah's reign one year after his mother Athaliah usurped the throne. Later scholars corrected this by dating these kings one year earlier,[3][4] so that Ahaziah's dates are taken as one year earlier than Thiele's in the present article.
Contents
1 Reign
2 Tel Dan Stele
3 Chronological notes
4 References
Reign
Ahaziah was the youngest son of Jehoram of Judah. According to 2 Chronicles 21:16–17, his older brothers had been carried off in a Philistine and Arab raid.
Under the influence of his mother Athaliah, Ahaziah introduced forms of worship that offended the Yahwistic party.
Members of her family became his advisors and encouraged him to join his uncle Jehoram, king of Israel, in an expedition against Hazael, king of the Arameans. Jehoram was wounded in the battle, and went to recuperate at Jezreel. Ahaziah also left the field of conflict in Gilead, and, after a visit to Jerusalem, came to Jezreel for a conference with Jehoram, and was caught up in the revolt by Jehu.[5] According to the account given in the Second Book of Kings, Ahaziah and Jehoram both went out to meet the rebellious general, with Jehoram learning too late of Jehu's murderous intentions. Ahaziah watched as his uncle was shot by Jehu, who was armed with a bow. Ahaziah fled for his life, but was wounded at the pass of Gur in Ibleam and had strength only to reach Megiddo, where he died (2 Kings 9:22–28). 2 Chronicles, however, gives a somewhat different account of Ahaziah's death, which has him hiding in Samaria after Jehu's coup, only to be found and killed by Jehu's henchmen on their king's orders.
Tel Dan Stele
The Tel Dan Stele, dating from circa the 9th century BCE, was discovered in Tel Dan and is the most important archaeological artifact to mention the House of David outside of the Bible
The author of the inscription on the Tel Dan Stele (fragments of which were found in 1993 and 1994 during archaeological excavations of the site of Tel Dan) claimed to have slain both Ahaziah, son of Jehoram, and Jehoram; the most likely author of this monument is Hazael of the Arameans. Although the inscription may be a contemporary witness of this period, kings of this period were inclined to boast and make exaggerated claims; it is not clear whether Jehu killed the two kings (as the Bible reports) or Hazael (as the Tel Dan Stele reports), or if Jehu acted in concert with Hazael. Bryant G. Wood notes that in 1 Kings 19:15 the prophet Elijah was directed by God to go to Damascus and anoint Hazael king of Aram, "an unusual circumstance". Hazael later resumed his attacks on Israel.[6]
Chronological notes
The calendars for reckoning the years of kings in Judah and Israel were offset by six months, that of Judah starting in Tishri (in the fall) and that of Israel in Nisan (in the spring). Cross-synchronizations between the two kingdoms therefore often allow narrowing of the beginning and/or ending dates of a king to within a six-month range. For Ahaziah, the Scriptural data allow the narrowing of his accession to some time between Nisan 1 of 841 BCE and the day before Tishri 1 of the same year. His death occurred within this six-month period. These dates are one year earlier than those given in the third edition of Thiele's Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, thereby correcting an internal consistency that Thiele never resolved, as explained in the Rehoboam article.
Leslie McFall proposed a coregency between Ahaziah and his father Jehoram that was occasioned by the disease Jehoram contracted one year before he died (2 Chronicles 21:18–19).[7] McFall's conception of a one-year coregency is consistent with the seriousness of the disease contracted by Jehoram, such as would make it a matter of common sense to appoint a coregent. It would explain the apparent discrepancy between 2 Kings 8:25 and 2 Kings 9:29. In the first reference, Ahaziah is said to begin in the 12th year of Jehoram of Israel, whereas the second gives it as Jehoram's 11th year. The first reference would be to the start of the sole reign, the second to the start of the coregency, one year earlier. Thiele's explanation of the apparent discrepancy between these two verses was that 2 Kings 8:25 was by non-accession reckoning and 2 Kings 9:29 by accession reckoning, reflecting the transition that Thiele said was taking place at this time from non-accession reckoning back to accession reckoning for the kingdom of Judah.[8] Although Thiele's suggestion has merit, McFall's coregency has been adopted in the infobox below. This begins one-year coregency sometime in the six months on or after Nisan 1 of 842 BCE, which was in the 11th year of Jehoram of Israel (2 Kings 9:29) by Israel's Nisan calendar and non-accession reckoning (2 Kings 9:29). By a Judean calendar the year would be 843/842 BCE, i.e. the year starting in Tishri of 843 BCE. The start of his sole reign would be in the six months following Nisan 1 of 841 BCE, in the 12th year of Jehoram of Israel (2 Kings 8:25); his death also occurred in this six-month interval.
References
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Ahaziah".
"2 Kings 9:29 Multilingual: In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah". biblehub.com.
Edwin R. Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (3rd ed.; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan/Kregel, 1983) 101, 217.
Young, Rodger C. (December 2003). "When Did Solomon Die?". Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 46 (4): 589–603. Archived from the original on 2010-07-26.
Leslie McFall, "The Chronology of the Hebrew Kings Revised," 2008, available on his Web site.
"Ahaziah", Jewish Encyclopedia
Bryant G. Wood PhD. "The Tel Dan Stela and the Kings of Aram and Israel". biblearchaeology.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
Leslie McFall, “A Translation Guide to the Chronological Data in Kings and Chronicles,” Bibliotheca Sacra 148 (1991) 21. (PDF)
Thiele, Mysterious Numbers 101.
=== FILE: !(2) King of Judah; joined Jehoram ===
FILE: !(2) King of Judah; joined Jehoram, king of Israel, in his attempt to recover Ramoth-gilead; was wounded in Samaria; and died at Megiddo (2 Kgs. 8:25-29;16-19 9:16-29; 10:13; 12:18; 1 Chr. 3:11; 2 Chr. 22:1-11); called Azariah (2 Chr.22:6) and Jehoahaz (2 Chr. 21:17). (Adam's gg son 37) W. Cleon Skousen's "The Fourth Thousand Years"; REIGNED: King of Judah (841)
=== 5754 1 REFN 33970 ===
5754 1 REFN 33970
=== Uzziah ===
Also known as Uzziah
Preferred Parents:
Father: Joram ben Jehoshephat 5th King of Judea 7th King of Israel, b. in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire d. 890 BC in Jerusalem
Mother: Athaliah Bat OMRI, b. ABT 580 BC in Samaria, Roman Empire d. ABT 344 BC in Jerusalem, Judea, Palestine
Family 1: Zibiah of Beersheba, Queen of Judah, b. ABT 863 BC in Jerusalem, Judea, Israel d. AFT 843 BC in Jerusalem, Judah, Israel
- Jotham ben Ozias 8th King of Judea 10th King of Israel, b. in Jerusalem, Kingdom of Judah d. 797 BC in murdered by his servants, Millo, Jerusalem, Judea
Sources:
- Title: Ahaziah of Judah Wiki
Publication: Name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahaziah_of_Judah;
- Title: Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology; Old Testament dates calculated from date Solomon Temple construction commences. 4th year of Solomons 40 year reign from 972 to 931 BC
Author: Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology by Andrew Steinmann ISBN: 9780758627995 https://www.cph.org/p-18805-from-abraham-to-paul-a-biblical-chronology.aspx
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Steinmann;
Note: Author Andrew Steinmann establishes two very strong chronological anchor points in the Old Testament era, from which most of the other Old Testament Chronological dates can be pinned down.
One: The date the Solomon temple construction commenced was on: 2 Iyyar 2793 or 26 April 967BC
from this he adds the 480 years that 1 Kings 6:1 / 8:2 states said construction was from Israel's exodus from Egypt. Brings us to...
Two: 14 Nisan 2314 / 22 March 1446 BC
Page: Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology, pg 140
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