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2 Koningen 8:26

- -, www.carm.org, [], How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule?

- -, Algemeen, [], 5 5. Was Ahaziah 22 (2 Kings 8:26) or 42 (2 Chronicles 22:2) when he began to rule over Jerusalem?
(Category: copyist error)
Because we are dealing with accounts which were written thousands of years ago, we would not expect to have the originals in our possession today, as they would have disintegrated long ago. We are therefore dependent on the copies taken from copies of those originals, which were in turn continually copied out over a period of centuries. Those who did the copying were prone to making two types of scribal errors. One concerned the spelling of proper names, and the other had to do with numbers.
The two examples of numerical discrepancy here have to do with a decade in the number given. Ahaziah is said to have been 22 in 2 Kings 8:26; while in 2 Chronicles 22:2 Ahaziah is said to have been 42. Fortunately there is enough additional information in the Biblical text to show that the correct number is 22. Earlier in 2 Kings 8:17 the author mentions that Ahaziah's father Joram ben Ahab was 32 when he became King, and he died eight years later, at the age of 40. Therefore Ahaziah could not have been 42 at the time of his father's death at age 40! Such scribal errors do not change Jewish or Christian beliefs in the least. In such a case, another portion of scripture often corrects the mistake (2 Kings 8:26 in this instance). We must also remember that the scribes who were responsible for the copies were meticulously honest in handling Biblical texts. They delivered them as they received them, without changing even obvious mistakes, which are few indeed.
(Archer 1982:206 and Light of Life II 1992:201)
Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], Twee en twintig jaren was Ahazia [41]oud, als hij koning werd, en regeerde een jaar te Jeruzalem; en de naam zijner moeder was Athalia, de [42]dochter van Omri, den koning van Israel.
41. Hebreeuws, een zoon van twee en twintig jaar.
42. Versta, zijns zoons dochter. Want deze Athalia was de dochter
van Achab, boven, vs.18, en Achab de zoon van Omri,
1 Kon.16:28,29.