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a Jehu killed Ahaziah king of Judah (9:27).

b Joram king of Israel (9:22-24), and Jezebel in close succession (9:14-37). Shorty thereafter Ahab’s seventy sons were massacred. The last surviving member of Ahab’s line was Athaliah queen of Judah (daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and daughter-in-law of Jehoshaphat). When Jehu killed Ahaziah, son of Jehoram and Athaliah, Athaliah seized the throne of Judah and attempted to exterminate the royal family of Judah (11:1).

c Jehosheba, the sister of Ahaziah of Judah, however, saved her infant nephew Joash and hid him for six years, until he was made king at seven years of age (11:2-3, 21). Athaliah was killed at Joash’s inauguration, thus terminating the line of Ahab and Jezebel.

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