| 1: Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his
stead. |
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| 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. |
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| 3:
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. |
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| 4: 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. |
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| 5: Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. |
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| 6: 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. |
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| 7: 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. |
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| 8: In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of
Judah, and made themselves a king. |
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| 9: 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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, |
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| 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: |
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| 14: Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people,
and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: |
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| 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. |
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| 16: Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of
the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
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| 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. |
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| 18: And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
