Ahaziah
Americannoun
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a son of Ahab and his successor as king of Israel, reigned 853?–852? b.c.
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a king of Judah, 846? b.c.
Etymology
Origin of Ahaziah
From Hebrew Aḥazyāh, Aḥazyāhū “God grasps (the hand)”
Example Sentences
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Here we may discover the falsity of the statement; for if any punishment was to follow in sending for the prophet, ought not Ahaziah to have been the victim?
From A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion by Offen, Benjamin
Good interpreters do conjecture, though Joash be called the son of Ahaziah, that he was not his son by nature, but by succession to the crown.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James
The house of Ahaziah had not power to keep still the kingdom, 2 Chron. xxii.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander
But Ahaziah was not killed at Jezreel: compare 2 Kings ix.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
What dealings did Ahaziah have with the prophet Elijah? 382-386 T.J.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
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