Graphic Bible · Scene 13 of 13
1 Kings 22:51-54
Two successions
Micaiah and the Fall of Ahab · 1 Kings 22
Story guide: Two royal transitions unfold side by side: Jehoshaphat's burial and Jehoram's succession in Judah, Ahaziah's rise in Israel. Faces and setting are not described in the passage.
Open this scene in the reader →51Jehoshaphat died and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoram became king in his place.
52Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign as king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years.
53And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
54He served Baal and bowed down to him, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger just as his father had done.
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