18 And he went walking in the way of the kings of Israel,+ just as those of the house of Aʹhab had done;+ for it was Aʹhab’s daughter that became his wife,+ and he kept doing what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes.

2 Twenty-two* years old was A·ha·ziʹah when he began to reign,+ and for one year he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Ath·a·liʹah+ the granddaughter* of Omʹri.+

26 Was it not because of these that Solʹo·mon the king of Israel sinned?+ And among the many nations there proved to be no king like him;+ and loved of his God he happened to be,+ so that God constituted him king over all Israel. Even him the foreign wives caused to sin.+