^{2 Ref} Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

^{3 Ref} He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

^{4 Ref} And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.