2 Kings 9:27

He fled. Ahaziah would hardly stand idly by while Joram was being smitten and his body cast into the vineyard of Naboth. He seems to have had more of a start from his pursuers than had Joram, for he was not immediately smitten.

The going up to Gur. An ascent, or a hill, near Ibleam. The name, Gur, occurs only here, and the exact site is not known. Ibleam is 8 mi. (12.8 km.) south by west from Jezreel, on the road to Samaria and Jerusalem. When pursued, Ahaziah would make it his first objective to reach Jerusalem, and this is the route he would take. The road from Jezreel at first winds along the plain of Esdraelon, but after a time begins to rise over the outlying spurs of the hills of Samaria. It was while Ahaziah’s chariot was making its ascent up one of these slopes that his pursuers came close enough to wound him. Ibleam is now known as Tell Bel ‘ameh.

Fled to Megiddo. The exact details of the narrative are not clear, for according to the record in Chronicles, Ahaziah was apprehended in Samaria and was brought before Jehu and slain (2 Chronicles 22:9). The two accounts can be reconciled by considering the narrative in Kings to be a general outline, with the narrative in Chronicles providing added details. The sequence of events may be understood as follows: Ahaziah, after being wounded near Ibleam, changed his course of flight, choosing, instead of the mountainous terrain to the south, the level plain toward Megiddo. While at Megiddo he attempted an escape to the south, but was apprehended in Samaria and returned to Megiddo at the summons of Jehu, who had arrived there. Ahaziah then met his death by execution, a detail omitted in the briefer Kings’ account.