1. Earlier, when the Arabs led a raid against Judah, they killed all of Jehoram's sons, except Ahaziah, the youngest one. So the people of Jerusalem crowned him their king.
2. He was twenty-two years old at the time, and he ruled only one year from Jerusalem.Ahaziah's mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of King Omri of Israel,
3. and she encouraged her son to sin against the Lord. He followed the evil example of King Ahab and his descendants.