2 Chronicles 21
The Reign of Jehoram
of Judah |
2 Kgs. 8.16-24 |
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Now Jehosh'aphat slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jeho'ram
his son reigned in his stead.
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And he had brethren the sons of
Jehosh'aphat, Azari'ah, and Jehi'el, and Zechari'ah, and Azari'ah,
and Michael, and Shephati'ah: all these were the sons of
Jehosh'aphat king of Israel.
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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 Jeho'ram; because he was the firstborn.
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Now when Jeho'ram 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.
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Jeho'ram was thirty and two years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in
Jerusalem.
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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.
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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. 1 Kgs. 11.36
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In his days the Edomites revolted from
under the dominion of Judah, Gen. 27.40 and made themselves a king.
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Then Jeho'ram 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.
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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.
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Moreover he made high places in the
mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
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And there came a writing to him from
Eli'jah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not
walked in the ways of Jehosh'aphat thy father, nor in the ways of
Asa king of Judah,
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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:
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behold, with a great plague will the
LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and
thy wives, and all thy goods:
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and thou shalt have great sickness
by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the
sickness day by day.
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Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jeho'ram the spirit of the Philistines, and of
the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
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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 Jeho'ahaz, the youngest of his
sons.
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And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable
disease.
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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.
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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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