Bible Discussion Thread

Hello sir am not saying its ur wrong or ur translation wrong .but I try explaining you in old testament 2kings 8.25 and it's said ahaziah became king in 22 years and same 2 chronicles 22.2 it's saying 42 years he became king so please check it .if my ways to explain you it's hut you am so sorry ..i checked ur mobile site app it's showing 42 years in 2 chronicles.

That is a good observation Avinash, as we on these pages have picked up on this before. This has nothing to do with this KJBO Site's presentation of the King James Bible, as they have given it verbatim from the written Scriptures.

This discrepancy with King Ahaziah's age as he went to the throne after his father Jehoram, found in these passages in 2 Kings 8:26 & 2 Chronicles 22:2, is what is termed as a 'copyist error'. That is, when the Old Testament Scriptures were being copied (& they were copied many many times over that period), sometimes an error crops up. In this case, as I've read, in the Hebrew language, the written form of the numbers "22 and 42" are very similar & is easy to make an error in copying. Some Bible translations have made the correction to '22', others have not. As we also see in, "His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri", where clearly, Athaliah was the grand-daughter of Omri (King of Israel) who married into the Kingdom of Judah.