25. In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, AHAZIAH the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

26. AHAZIAH was twenty-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 king of Israel.

27. He walked in the way of Ahab's house, and did that which was evil in The LORD's sight, as did Ahab's house; for he was the son-in-law of Ahab's house.

28. He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

29. King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. AHAZIAH the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

16. So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. AHAZIAH king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

17. Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company."Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'"

18. So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'"Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!"The watchman said, "The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming back."

19. Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'"Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!"

20. The watchman said, "He came to them, and isn't coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously."

21. Joram said, "Get ready!"They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and AHAZIAH king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite's land.

22. When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?"He answered, "What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?"

23. Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to AHAZIAH, "This is treason, AHAZIAH!"

24. Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

25. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden on him:

26. 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,' says The LORD; 'and I will repay you in this plot of ground,' says The LORD. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to The LORD's word."

27. But when AHAZIAH the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, "Strike him also in the chariot!" They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

28. His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David's city.

29. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, AHAZIAH began to reign over Judah.