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Chapter 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 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 11 | Moreover he
made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of
Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto. |
| 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, |
| 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: |
| 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 | Moreover the LORD stirred up
against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were
near the Ethiopians: |
| 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. |
| 18 | And after all this the LORD
smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
