Bennettresearch said:
Hi Bin,
2Kings 8:25-26 says he reigned for one year when his mother Athalia took control of Judah. This is also said in Chronicles. Ahaziah never made it to 42 years old.
Hey Bennet,
I don't recall them saying she took over... I think it said something along the lines of who his mother is, I'm pretty sure it doesn't say "he reigned for one year
when his mother Athalia took control of Judah". I don't even have the books with me at the moment to check.
Do you happen to have a site with the verses translated - with the hebrew next to it?
I'd have to do more research into what the sages said about this verse (which I can do since I'll be at the Yesheva for Yom Kippur which is later tonight), I just remember reading commentary about this a while ago by Rabbi Kimchi. Do you happen to have a copy of the verses in question? I only have a Siddur (Prayer book) with me, which isn't very helpful at the moment to the conversation we're having.
I'm just going off the memory of what I read, but Sunday I'll post a bunch of the commentary about these verses. Maybe sooner, but we shall see, Yom Kippur is Wed night to Thurs night, then Shabbat is Friday night to Saturday night, so I don't know if I will have the time to type out all the commentary, either way, it should be interesting.