| II Chronicles 22:2
| Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia, the daughter of Amri.
| Forty-two, etc. Diverse Greek Bibles read twenty-two, agreeably to 4 Kings 8:18., (Challoner) with the Syriac and Arabic. The Roman (Calmet) and Alexandrian Septuagint have "twenty." (Haydock) --- Ochozias was the youngest son, and his father died at forty years of age, 2 Paralipomenon 21:20. (Calmet) --- Others would date from the birth of Amri, (Broughton) or of Athalia. But it is most probable that we should read 22, as [in] 4 Kings. (Calmet) --- The contradiction has so much perplexed the commentators, that Walton (prol. 36) puts it among the quaedam apora; and De Dieu says, "I would rather plainly confess that this difficulty is to us inexplicable." The error here, "is plainly owing to a mistake of one of the Hebrew numeral letters," c, being put instead of m, which was formerly more similar than it is now. "In Origen's Hexapla, one of the Greek copies (probably that found in Caracalla's time) reads here cb, by rendering the number 22, eikosi kai duo, all which proofs make the mistake indubitable, and strongly recommend this method of correcting it." (Kennicott) --- Mariana, Tirinus, etc., had already suggested this plan, (Haydock) which is very plausible. (Du Hamel) --- Ochozias might reign twenty years with his father, and only one alone, 4 Kings 8:26. (Worthington)
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