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Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David. And
Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eight years in
Jerusalem.
06 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.
07 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.
08 In his days the Edomites revolted from under
the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a
king.
09 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.
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.
11 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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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,
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:
14 Behold, with a great plague will the Lord
smite thy people, and thy children, and thy
wives, and all thy goods:
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.
16 Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram
the spirit of the Philistines, and of the
Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
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.
18 And after all this the Lord smote him in his
bowels with an incurable disease.
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.
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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