Ahaziah

Ahaziah (meaning held by Jehovah or seizure of the Lord) is the name of two kings in the Old Testament. The first was the son and successor of Ahab and Jezebel, the ninth king of Israel, reigning c. 853–852 B.C. He walked in the ways of his parents and the sins of Jeroboam, and he died after a fall through a lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria — having sent to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron rather than of the God of Israel, for which the prophet Elijah pronounced his death (2 Kings 1). He died without a son and was succeeded by his brother Jehoram.

The second Ahaziah was the son of Jehoram and Athaliah, the sixth king of Judah, reigning c. 841 B.C. — a single year. He was the grandson of Ahab through his mother Athaliah, and he walked in the counsel of Ahab's house. He was killed by Jehu of Israel during Jehu's divinely commissioned purge of the Omride dynasty, dying at Megiddo after being wounded in his chariot at Jezreel. His death set the stage for Athaliah's usurpation of the Judahite throne.