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.
4. In fact, after his father's death, Ahaziah sinned against the Lord by appointing some of Ahab's relatives to be his advisers.Their advice led to his downfall.
5. He listened to them and went with King Joram of Israel to attack King Hazael and the Syrian troops at Ramoth in Gilead. Joram was wounded in that battle,
6. and he went to the town of Jezreel to recover. And Ahaziah later went there to visit him.
7. It was during that visit that God had Ahaziah put to death.When Ahaziah arrived at Jezreel, he and Joram went to meet with Jehu, grandson of Nimshi. The Lord had already told Jehu to kill every male in Ahab's family,
8. and while Jehu was doing that, he saw some of Judah's leaders and Ahaziah's nephews who had come with Ahaziah. Jehu killed them on the spot,
9. then gave orders to find Ahaziah. Jehu's officers found him hiding in Samaria. They brought Ahaziah to Jehu, who immediately put him to death. They buried Ahaziah only because they respected Jehoshaphat his grandfather, who had done his best to obey the Lord.There was no one from Ahaziah's family left to become king of Judah.