Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 9:29

And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

29. And in the eleventh year of Joram began Ahaziah to reign ] This verse seems out of place. It is not usual to mention the date at which a king begins to reign, after his death, but at his accession. This was done for Ahaziah in 2Ki 8:25, but there it is said that it was in the twelfth year of Joram that his reign began. So small a variation is of very little account when we consider how the Jews reckoned the regnal years of their kings, but the unusual position of the notice in this verse casts some suspicion upon it. The LXX. however represents it.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

In the eleventh year – The twelfth according to 2Ki 8:25. The discrepancy may be best explained from two ways of reckoning the accession of Ahaziah, who is likely to have been regent for his father during at least one year. See 2Ch 21:19.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. In the eleventh year of Joram] The note in our margin contains as good an account of this chronological difficulty as can be reasonably required: Then he began to reign as viceroy to his father in his sickness; 2Ch 21:18-19. But in Joram’s twelfth year he began to reign alone; 2Kg 8:26.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Of this See Poole “2Ki 8:25“.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. In 2Ki 8:25, it is said to be in the twelfth year of his reign; it was at the close of the eleventh, and the beginning of the twelfth; or he began to reign with his father in the eleventh as here, and in the twelfth as there, when his father was dead.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(29) In the eleventh year of Joram.2Ki. 8:25 says in the twelfth year of Joram. Such a difference is not remarkable, inasmuch as the synchronisms between the reigns of the two kingdoms are not based upon exact records. Moreover, different computations might make the same year the eleventh or tweftth of Joram. (The verse is a parenthesis, and perhaps spurious.)

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

29. In the eleventh year of Joram But 2Ki 8:25, says, the twelfth year of Joram. “This difference of dates probably arose from a different computation of the beginning of the years of his reign.” Keil.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments