Ahaziah

[ ey-uh-zahy-uh, ey-ha- ]

noun

Bible.

1. a son of Ahab and his successor as king of Israel, reigned 853?–852? b.c.
2. a king of Judah, 846? b.c.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ahaziah¹

From Hebrew Aḥazyāh, Aḥazyāhū “God grasps (the hand)”

Example Sentences

The following circumstance brought Elijah into direct conflict with the kingdom of Israel, and the then called false prophets:—Ahaziah, then King of Israel and Samaria, met with an accident, and was sick; and he sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub whether he would recover or not Now, Elijah was sent, or, he said he was sent, to say to the messenger, “Is it because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?”

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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?

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During this time the two kingdoms had been at war, and had summoned strangers into the land against each other; even the connection into which they had entered in the last thirty years, and the close relations existing between Ahab and Joram of Israel and Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah of Judah had not been able to give more than a transitory firmness and solidity to the two kingdoms.

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At Jibleam the arrows of the pursuers reached Ahaziah; wounded to the death, he came to Megiddo, and there he died.

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That Ahaziah of Judah and Joram of Israel must have been slain, at the latest, in the year 843 B.C. is a necessary consequence of the fact that Jehu paid tribute to the Assyrians as early as the year 842 B.C.

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