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¹ Iehoshaphat then slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his steade.

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 ofRead (2Ch_15:17) how by Israel he meant Judah.Israel.

³ And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things, with strong cities in Iudah, but the kingdome gaue he to Iehoram: for he was the eldest.

⁴ Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, andBecause the wicked always live in fear, and also are ambitious, they become cruel and spare not to murder them, whom by nature they ought most to cherish and defend.slew all his brethren with the sword, and [divers] also of the princes ofMeaning, of Judah and Benjamin.Israel.

⁵ Iehoram was two and thirtie yeere olde, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eyght yeere in Ierusalem.

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 toSo that we see how it cannot be that we should join with the wicked and serve God.wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.

⁷ Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of Dauid, because of the couenant that he had made with Dauid, and because he had promised to giue a light to him, and to his sonnes for euer.

⁸ In his dayes Edom rebelled from vnder the hand of Iudah, and made a King ouer them.

⁹ And Iehoram went forth with his princes, and all his charets with him: and hee rose vp by night, & smote Edom, which had compassed him in, and the captaines of the charets.

¹⁰ So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time [also] didRead (2Ki_8:22).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 commitMeaning, idolatry because the idolater breaks promise with God as the adulteress does to her husband.fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].

¹² And there came a writing to him fromSome think that this was Elisha so called because he had the Spirit in abundance, as had Elijah.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, & hast made Iudah & the inhabitantes of Ierusalem to go a whoring, as the house of Ahab went a whoring, & hast also slaine thy brethre of thy fathers house, which were better then thou,

¹⁴ Beholde, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy substance,

¹⁵ And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy bowels, untilWe see this example daily practised on them who fall away from God, and become idolaters and murderers of their brethren.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 theThere were other Arabians in Africa southward toward Egypt.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, saveCalled also Ahaziah, as in (2Ch_22:1) or Azariah in (2Ch_22:6).Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

¹⁸ And after all this, the Lorde smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

¹⁹ And in processe of time, euen after the end of two yeeres, his guttes fell out with his disease: so he dyed of sore diseases: & 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,That is, as some write, he was not regarded but deposed for his wickedness and idolatry so that his son reigned 22 years (his father yet living) without honour, and after his father's death he was confirmed to reign still, as in (2Ch_22:2).and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.