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Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me
1that you would certainly recover."
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But the next day he took the bed cloth and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.
Jehoram Reigns in Judah
16 In the fifth year of
2Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was
3thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for
4the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant,
5since he promised to give
6a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
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In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up
7a king of their own.
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Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army
8fled home.
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9So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then
10Libnah revolted at the same time.
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Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
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So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried
11with his fathers in the city of David, and
12Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.