King James Version
2 Kings 9:29 in the King James Version says “And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.”
2 Kings 9:29 · KJV
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. painted: Heb. put her eyes in painting
And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
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“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“over Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
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