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aAnd Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
2 Chron. 21
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And he had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah and Jehiel and Zechariah and Azariahu and Michael and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat the king of
1Judah.
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And their father gave them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, along with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, for he was the
afirstborn.
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And when Jehoram rose up over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself, he slew all his brothers with the sword as well as the princes of Israel.
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aJehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
E.
The reign of Jehoram
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2 Chron. 21
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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel
and as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab’s daughter was his
awife; and he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Chron. 21
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But Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the
1acovenant He had made with David and since He had promised him that He would provide a
blamp for him and for his children always.
2 Chron. 21
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In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they installed a king over themselves.
2 Chron. 21
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So Jehoram crossed over with his captains and all his chariots with him. And he rose up at night and struck the Edomites all around him and the captains of the chariots.
2 Chron. 21
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So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah,
as it is to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, for he had forsaken Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
2 Chron. 21
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He also made high places in the hill country of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit harlotries and led Judah astray.
2 Chron. 21
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And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says Jehovah, the God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of
aJehoshaphat your father and in the ways of
bAsa the king of Judah
2 Chron. 21
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But have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit harlotries, as the house of
aAhab committed harlotries, and also have slain your brothers,
those of your father’s house, who were better than you,
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Jehovah is now striking your people and your children and your wives and all your possessions with a great plague;
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And you yourself will be severely ill with a disease of your bowels, to the point that your bowels will come out day by day because of the illness.
2 Chron. 21
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And Jehovah
astirred up the spirit of the Philistines and Arabians who are next to the Cushites against Jehoram.
2 Chron. 21
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And they came up against Judah and broke through into it and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house as well as his sons and his wives; and no son was left to him except
aJehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
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And after all this, Jehovah struck him in his bowels with the incurable illness.
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And in the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the illness, and he died with severe illnesses. And his people did not make a burning for him, like the burning
they had made for his fathers.
2 Chron. 21
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He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
