The King’s Real Age
Question
Hi, I was speaking with a Muslim recently and as expected he said the Torah as the Jews have it is corrupted and they have the real version. But he did point out a discrepancy that I wasn’t expecting.
In Kings II 8:26 it says that King Ahazia took the throne at 22 years old.
But in Chronicles II 22:2 it says that King Ahazia took the throne at 42 years old.
My first thought was that Chronicles has some sort of inferior status in the cannon regarding authority of content. But I’m not sure.
In any case, how do we reconcile this weird contradiction?