SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:26
De veintidós años era Ocozías cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó un año en Jerusalén. El nombre de su madre fue Atalía hija de Omri rey de Israel.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 8:26
Verse 26. Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign] In 2 Chron. xxii. 2, it is said, forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; this is a heavy difficulty, to remove which several expedients have been used. It is most evident that, if we follow the reading in Chronicles, it makes the son two years older than his own father! for his father began to reign when he was thirty-two years old, and reigned eight years, and so died, being forty years old; see ver. 17. Dr. Lightfoot says, "The original meaneth thus: Ahaziah was the son of two and forty years; namely, of the house of Omri, of whose seed he was by the mother's side; and he walked in the ways of that house, and came to ruin at the same time with it. This the text directs us to look after, when it calleth his mother the daughter of Omri, who was indeed the daughter of Ahab. Now, these forty- two years are easily reckoned by any that will count back in the Chronicle to the second of Omri. Such another reckoning there is about Jechoniah, or Jehoiachin, chap. xxiv. 8: Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign. But, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 9, Jehoiachin was the son of the eight years; that is, the beginning of his reign fell in the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar, and of Judah's first captivity." - Works, vol. i., p. 87. After all, here is a most manifest contradiction, that cannot be removed but by having recourse to violent modes of solution. I am satisfied the reading in 2 Chron. xxii. 2, is a mistake; and that we should read there, as here, twenty-two instead of forty-two years; see the note there. And may we not say with Calmet, Which is most dangerous, to acknowledge that transcribers have made some mistakes in copying the sacred books, or to acknowledge that there are contradictions in them, and then to have recourse to solutions that can yield no satisfaction to any unprejudiced mind? I add, that no mode of solution yet found out has succeeded in removing the difficulty; and of all the MSS. which have been collated, and they amount to several hundred, not one confirms the reading of twenty-two years. And to it all the ancient versions are equally unfriendly.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign , etc.] In ( 2 Chronicles 22:2) he is said to be forty two years of age; for the solution of that difficulty (see Gill on “ 2 Chronicles 22:2”): and he reigned one year in Jerusalem ; which was the whole of his reign: and his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel ; that is, his granddaughter; for she was the daughter of Ahab the son of Omri, ( 2 Kings 8:18), it was usual for grandchildren to be called children, sons and daughters, and perhaps she might be educated in the family of Omri.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-29 - Names do not make natures, but it was bad for Jehoshaphat's family to borrow names from Ahab's. Ahaziah's relation to Ahab's family was the occasion of his wickedness and of his fall. When men choose wives for themselves, let them remember they are choosing mothers for their children. Providence so ordered it, that Ahaziah might be cut off with the house of Ahab, when the measure of their iniquity was full. Thos who partake with sinners in their sin, must expect to partake with the in their plagues. May all the changes, troubles, and wickedness of the world, make us more earnest to obtain an interest in the salvation of Christ __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
בן 1121 עשׂרים 6242 ושׁתים 8147 שׁנה 8141 אחזיהו 274 במלכו 4427 ושׁנה 8141 אחת 259 מלך 4427 בירושׁלם 3389 ושׁם 8034 אמו 517 עתליהו 6271 בת 1323 עמרי 6018 מלך 4428 ישׂראל׃ 3478
