2 Chronicles 21
1 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2 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.
3 And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of
precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to
Jehoram, because he was the first-born.
4 Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had
strengthened himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also
of the princes of Israel.
5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for
he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight
of Jehovah.
7 Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant
that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his
children alway.
8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over
themselves.
9 Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and
he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and the
captains of the chariots.
10 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day: then did Libnah
revolt at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah,
the God of his fathers.
11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.
12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith
Jehovah, the 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 play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did,
and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, who were better than
thyself:
14 behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children,
and thy wives, and all thy substance;
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 And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of
the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians:
17 and they came up against 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 Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
19 And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his
bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and 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 he departed without being desired; and they buried
him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.