Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Forty-two Diverse Greek Bibles read twenty-two, agreeably to 4 Kings viii. 18., (Challoner) with the Syriac and Arabic. The Roman (Calmet) and Alexandrian Septuagint have "twenty. "(Haydock)
Ochozias was the youngest son, and his father died at forty years of age, chap. xxi. 20. (Calmet)
Others would date from the birth of Amri, (Broughton) or of Athalia. But it is most probable that we should read 22, as 4 Kings. (Calmet)
The contradiction has so much perplexed the commentators, that Walton (prol. 36) puts it among the quædam apora; and De Dieu says, "I would rather plainly confess that this difficulty is to us inexplicable. "The error here, "is plainly owing to a mistake of one of the Hebrew numeral letters "c, being put instead of m, which was formerly more similar than it is now. "In Origen's Hexapla, one of the Greek copies (probably that found in Caracalla's time) reads here cb, by rendering the number 22, eikosi kai duo, all which proofs make the mistake indubitable, and stro...
