I. Son and successor of Ahab, king of Israel, reigned 897-895 B. C. The most signal event of his reign was the revolt of the Moabites. Ahaziah, like his lather Ahab, was controlled by the ambitious Jezebel, and walked in the ways of his father. He fell from a roof of his palace, and sent to the oracle of Baal-zebub at Ekron to inquire if he should recover. The prophet Elijah met the messengers on the way, and sent them back to say to the king that he should never rise from his bed. II Son and successor of Jehoram, king of Ju-dah. He reigned but one year, and during that time he was under the entire control of his mother Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, and sister of Ahab, king of Israel, He was slain (884 B. C.) by Jehu, who regarded Ahaziah as coming by blood into the scope of his commission to destroy the house of Ahab.