2 Chronicles 22:1
Good News Translation
Some Arabs had led a raid and killed all of King Jehoram's sons except Ahaziah, the youngest. So now the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah king as his father's successor.

New Revised Standard Version
The inhabitants of Jerusalem made his youngest son Ahaziah king as his successor; for the troops who came with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram reigned as king of Judah.

Contemporary English Version
Earlier, when the Arabs led a raid against Judah, they killed all of Jehoram's sons, except Ahaziah, the youngest one. So the people of Jerusalem crowned him their king.

New American Bible
Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king to succeed him, since all the older sons had been killed by the band that had come into the camp with the Arabians. Thus Ahaziah, son of Jehoram, reigned as the king of Judah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son king in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in upon the camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda reigned.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son king in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in upon the camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda reigned.

the inhabitants

2 Chronicles 23:3 And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house of God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.

2 Chronicles 26:1 And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.

2 Chronicles 33:25 But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had killed Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.

2 Chronicles 36:1 Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.

Ahaziah

2 Chronicles 22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezrahel: for he received many wounds in the foresaid battle. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda, went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel where he lay sick.

Azariah

2 Chronicles 21:17 And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, his sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest.

Jehoahaz

2 Kings 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 3:11 The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born Joas:

slain

2 Chronicles 21:16,17 And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians. . . .

Context
Ahaziah Reigns in Judah
1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son king in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in upon the camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda reigned.2Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri.…
Cross References
2 Kings 8:24
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 8:25
In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Achab, king of Israel, reigned Ochozias, son of Joram, king of Juda.

2 Chronicles 21:16
And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.

2 Chronicles 22:2
Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri.

2 Chronicles 25:23
And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda, the son of Joas, the son of Joachaz, in Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem: and broke down the walls thereof from the gate of Ephraim, to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.

2 Chronicles 21:20
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