2CH-21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried

with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son

reigned in his stead.

2CH-21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah,

and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and

Shephatiah: all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of

Israel.

2CH-21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and

of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah:

but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he [was] the

firstborn.

2CH-21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his

father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with

the sword, and [divers] also of the princes of Israel.

2CH-21:5 Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2CH-21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like

as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to

wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the

LORD.

2CH-21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David,

because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he

promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

2CH-21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the

dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.

2CH-21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his

chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the

Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the

chariots.

2CH-21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah

unto this day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from under

his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

2CH-21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah,

 and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication,

and compelled Judah [thereto].

2CH-21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the

prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father,

Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy

father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

2CH-21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and

hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring,

 like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain

thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were] better than

thyself:

2CH-21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy

people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

2CH-21:15 And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy

bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day

by day.

2CH-21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the

spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near

the Ethiopians:

2CH-21:17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and

carried away all the substance that was found in the king's

house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never

a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

2CH-21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels

with an incurable disease.

2CH-21:19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after

the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his

sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no

burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

2CH-21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign,

 and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without

being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but

not in the sepulchres of the kings.

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