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2 Chronicles

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Chapter 21

¹Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. ²He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. ³Their father gave them great gifts of silver, gold, and precious things, besides fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. ⁴When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel. ⁵Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. ⁶He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. ⁷Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever. ⁸In his days Edom revolted from under the authority of Judah and appointed a king of their own. ⁹Then Jehoram crossed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders. ¹⁰So Edom revolted from under the authority of Judah to this day. At the same time Libnah also revolted from under his authority, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers. ¹¹Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom and made Judah go astray. ¹²And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah, ¹³but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led into whoredom, and moreover you have killed your brothers, your own father’s house, who were better than yourself, ¹⁴behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, ¹⁵and you yourself will have a severe illness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’” ¹⁶And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. ¹⁷And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the king’s house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son. ¹⁸And after all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. ¹⁹In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of his disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers. ²⁰He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.