2 Chronicles 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
