2 Kings 8:25

“In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.] He is called Jehoahaz, and said to be the youngest son of Jehoram, (<142117>2 Chronicles 21:17).”

“8:25 twelfth year of the reign of Joram: The year of Ahaziah’s accession to the throne of Judah (841 BC) was pivotal in ancient Near Eastern history. Before the year was out, both Joram and Ahaziah lay dead, Hazael was confirmed as king of Damascus, and Shalmaneser III of Assyria dominated the region.”

“am 3119-3120, bc 885-884, Kg2 8:16, Kg2 8:17, Kg2 9:29; Ch2 21:20 4 Kings (2 Kings) 8:26”

“Reign of Ahaziah of Judah (cf. Ch2 22:1-6). \- Ahaziah, the youngest son of Joram, ascended the throne in the twenty-second year of his age. The statement in Ch2 22:2, that he was forty-two years old when he became king, rests upon a copyist's error, namely, a confusion of כ twenty with מ forty. Now, since his father became king at the age of thirty-two, and reigned eight years, Ahaziah must have been born in the nineteenth year of his age. Consequently it may appear strange that Ahaziah had brothers still older than himself ( Ch2 21:17); but as early marriages are common in the East, and the royal princes had generally concubines along with their wife of the first rank, as is expressly…”