Skeptics Annotated Bible A Response

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11/06/2004

#14 - When did Ahaziah begin to reign?

Response by Wendell Leahy

In the twelfth year of Joram
2 Kings 8:25: In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
In the eleventh year of Joram.
2Kings 9:29: And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign.

That is, eleven whole years: for in (2 Kings 8:25) when he said he began to reign in the twelfth year of Joram, he takes a partial year for a whole. ~The 1599 Geneva Study Bible