In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
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In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
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And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
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And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 9:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 21:18-19 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
- 2 Kings 8:16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 8:24-25 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Chronicles 22:1-2 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, eleven whole years: for 2 Kings 8:25,…
That is, eleven whole years: for 2 Kings 8:25, before, when he said that he began to reign the twelfth year of Joram, he taketh part of the year for the whole.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram…
2Ki 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
Ver. 29. And in the eleventh year.] See 2Ki 8:25.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Of this See Poole "2Ki 8:25".
Of this See Poole "2Ki 8:25".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said, throw her down,.... Out of the…
And he said, throw her down,.... Out of the window upon the ground:
so they threw her down; took her up, and cast her headlong, as they were bid:
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and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall; of the palace where she was:
and on the horses; which drew the chariot of Jehu:
and he trod her underfoot; with his horses; according to Kimchi, her sentence, and so her death, was stoning, as a retaliation of Naboth; for stoning was done two ways, both by casting down persons on stones, and by casting stones upon them; see Gill on Act 7:58.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 29. In the eleventh year of Joram] The…
Verse 29. In the eleventh year of Joram] The note in our margin contains as good an account of this chronological difficulty as can be reasonably required: Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his sickness; 2Ch 21:18-19. But in Joram's twelfth year he began to reign alone; 2Kg 8:26.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain In the eleventh year - The twelfth according to…
In the eleventh year - The twelfth according to 2Ki 8:25. The discrepancy may be best explained from two ways of reckoning the accession of Ahaziah, who is likely to have been regent for his father during at least one year. See 2Ch 21:19.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Eleventh, or rather the twelfth, (chap. viii. 25.; Houbigant)…
Eleventh, or rather the twelfth, (chap. viii. 25.; Houbigant) unless he had been associated with his father on the throne a year before his death. (Calmet) (Du Hamel)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 29. In the eleventh year of Joram — But…
29. In the eleventh year of Joram — But 2Ki_8:25, says, the twelfth year of Joram. “This difference of dates probably arose from a different computation of the beginning of the years of his reign.” — Keil.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. And in the eleventh year of Joram ……
29. And in the eleventh year of Joram … began Ahaziah to reign] This verse seems out of place. It is not usual to mention the date at which a king begins to reign, after his death, but at his accession. This was done for Ahaziah in 2Ki_8:25, but there it is said that it was in the twelfth year of Joram that his reign began. So small a variation is of very little account when we consider how the Jews reckoned the regnal years of their kings, but the unusual position of the notice in this verse casts some suspicion upon it. The LXX. however represents it.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) In the eleventh year of Joram.—2Ki_8:25 says “in…
(29) In the eleventh year of Joram.—2Ki_8:25 says “in the twelfth year of Joram.” Such a difference is not remarkable, inasmuch as the synchronisms between the reigns of the two kingdoms are not based upon exact records. Moreover, different computations might make the same year the eleventh or tweftth of Joram. (The verse is a parenthesis, and perhaps spurious.)
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And in the eleventh year of Joram the son…
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Israel. in 2Ki_8:25 the accession of Ahaziah is placed in Joram"s twelfth, instead of his eleventh, year. The slight discrepancy is sufficiently explained By the double reckoning of a king"s "first year," familiar to chronologists, either
(1) from the date of the accession to the end of the current civil year; or
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(2) from the date of the accession to the same day in the ensuing year.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab
in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab
This describes the time that Ahaziah began to reign by stating how long the current king of Israel had reigned. AT: "in the eleventh year that Joram son of Ahab was king of Israel" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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eleventh year
"11th year" (See: Ordinal Numbers)
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reign
kingdom of Judah
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