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 == Short Answer == Short Answer
 +He became king at age 22 in the 42nd year of the dynasty, after his father was deemed unfit to rule in the 40th year.
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 Look carefully at 2 Chronicles 22:1 (the verse before) which explains why the context is different. In 2nd Chronicles it states that the people elected him King in his father's stead, because he was unfit to rule. It also states he "reigned". It is not fitting here to say that he "became king" -- he was chosen as a fit successor before the death of his father, and could not be crowned king until later. That is why in the very next verse it says he became king at 42. See for yourself: 2 Kings 8:16 states he became king at age 32 and ruled for 8 years. His father died in year 40 and Ahaziah was finally crowned king at year 42, and his father was buried as a commoner. (Year --> "Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year; **his mother’s name was Athaliah daughter of Omri.**" see Dr. Jones below for an explanation of this wording. Look carefully at 2 Chronicles 22:1 (the verse before) which explains why the context is different. In 2nd Chronicles it states that the people elected him King in his father's stead, because he was unfit to rule. It also states he "reigned". It is not fitting here to say that he "became king" -- he was chosen as a fit successor before the death of his father, and could not be crowned king until later. That is why in the very next verse it says he became king at 42. See for yourself: 2 Kings 8:16 states he became king at age 32 and ruled for 8 years. His father died in year 40 and Ahaziah was finally crowned king at year 42, and his father was buried as a commoner. (Year --> "Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year; **his mother’s name was Athaliah daughter of Omri.**" see Dr. Jones below for an explanation of this wording.
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 +=== Timeline
 +* 42 year Dynastic Timeline:
 +** Omri — 6 years
 +** Ahab — 22 years
 +** Ahaziah (of Israel) — 2 years
 +** Joram (or Jehoram) — 12 years
 +** (Total: 42 years)
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 +* Timeline: 
 +* 32 -- Joram becomes King (8:16-17)
 +** //He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. (2Ki 8:17)//
 +* 40/41 -- Joram is deemed unfit to rule and his son rules (2 Chronicles 22:1) (See 8:Kings 24 "He rested... and was buried").
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 +* 42 -- He is made king in an official coronation (2 Chronicles 22:2)
 +** //Joram rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David; his son Ahaziah succeeded him as king. (2 Kings 8:24)//
 +** //In the twelfth year of King Joram son of Ahab of Israel, Ahaziah son of Joram became king of Judah. (2 Kings 8:24-25)//
 +* 42 -- Ahaziah becomes King at 22 (2 Kings 8:26) and rules for only one year as king.
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 == Longer answer == Longer answer
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