I read 2 kings 8:26 and compared it to 2chron 22:2 and in the NIV both verses matched at 22 yrs of age. -just thought Id add my $.02 It is interesting though to see the discrepencies.
2 Chron 22:2...what the heck?
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A note from Scofield's 1917 commentary:
We have here an account of the reign of Ahaziah, a short reign (of one year only), yet long enough, unless it had been better. He was called Jeho-ahaz (
#2Ch 21:17 ); here he is called Ahaz-iah), which is the same name and of the same signification, only the words of which it is compounded are transposed. He is here said to be forty-two years old when he began to reign ( #2Ch 22:2 ), which could not be, for his father, his immediate predecessor, was but forty when he died, and it is said ( #2Ki 8:26 ) that he was twenty-two years old when he began to reign. Some make this forty-two to be the age of his mother Athaliah, for in the original it is, he was the son of forty-two years, that is, the son of a mother that was of that age; and justly is her age put for his, in reproach to him, because she managed him, and did what she would—she, in effect, reigned, and he had little more than the title of king. Many good expositors are ready to allow that this, with some few more such difficulties, arises from the mistake of some transcriber, who put forty-two for twenty-two, and the copies by which the error should have been corrected might be lost. Many ancient translations read it here twenty-two. Few books are now printed without some errata, yet the authors do not therefore disown them, nor are the errors of the press imputed to the author, but the candid reader amends them by the sense, or by comparing them with some other part of the work, as we may easily do this.