2 Kings 8:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Two and twenty years. See note on 2 Chronicles 22:2.

Ahaziah. Note that Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah, omitted in Matthew 1:8, all died violent deaths (2Ki 9:27. 2 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 14:19).

daughter. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus), for grand-daughter; and even for successors not in descent by blood.

2 Kings 8:26

26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughtere of Omri king of Israel.