Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”

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for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.

Men of bloodshed hate the blameless,
But the upright are concerned for his life.

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and his offering was one silver

dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

Now this was their number: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 duplicates;

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Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again,