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Jehoram
Succeeds Jehoshaphat in Judah |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:1 |
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Then Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son became king
in his place. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:2 |
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He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah,
Jehiel, Zechariah, Azaryahu, Michael and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of
Jehoshaphat king of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:3 |
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Their father gave them many gifts of silver,
gold and precious things, with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom
to Jehoram because he was the firstborn. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:4 |
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Now when Jehoram had taken over the kingdom
of his father and made himself secure, he killed all his brothers with the sword,
and some of the rulers of Israel also. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:5 |
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Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became
king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:6 |
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He walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
just as the house of Ahab did (for Ahab's daughter was his wife), and he did evil
in the sight of the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:7 |
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Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the
house of David because of the covenant which He had made with David, and since
He had promised to give a lamp to him and his sons forever. |
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Revolt
against Judah |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:8 |
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In his days Edom revolted against the rule of
Judah and set up a king over themselves. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:9 |
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Then Jehoram crossed over with his commanders
and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night and struck down the Edomites
who were surrounding him and the commanders of the chariots. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:10 |
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So Edom revolted against Judah to this day.
Then Libnah revolted at the same time against his rule, because he had forsaken
the LORD God of his fathers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:11 |
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Moreover, he made high places in the mountains
of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah
astray. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:12 |
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Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet
saying, "Thus says the LORD God of your father David, 'Because you have not walked
in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asa king of Judah, |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:13 |
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but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the
house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers, your
own family, who were better than you, |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:14 |
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behold, the LORD is going to strike your people,
your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity; |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:15 |
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and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease
of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'" |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:16 |
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Then the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the
spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who bordered the Ethiopians; |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:17 |
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and they came against Judah and invaded it,
and carried away all the possessions found in the king's house together with his
sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest
of his sons. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:18 |
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So after all this the LORD smote him in his
bowels with an incurable sickness. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:19 |
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Now it came about in the course of time, at
the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness and he
died in great pain. And his people made no fire for him like the fire for his
fathers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 21:20 |
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He was thirty-two years old when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; 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. |
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