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II CHRONICLES ยท Chapter 21
21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his position.
21:2 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.
21:3 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.
21:4 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.
21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like 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.
21:7 Nevertheless 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.
21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah,
and made themselves a king.
21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots
with him: and he rose up by night, and stroke the Edomites which compassed
him in, and the captains of the chariots.
21:10 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.
21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah
thereto.
21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,
Thus says the LORD God of David your father, Because you have not walked
in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of
Judah,
21:13 But have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms
of the house of Ahab, and also have slain your brethren of your father's
house, which were better than yourself:
21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD strike your people,
and your children, and your wives, and all your goods:
21:15 And you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels,
until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
21:17 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 not a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the
youngest of his sons.
21:18 And after all this the LORD stroke him in his bowels with an
incurable disease.
21:19 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.
21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Nevertheless
they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchers of the
kings.
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