Jehoram Reigns in Judah
16 In the fifth year of
1Joram 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
2thirty-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
3the 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,
4since he promised to give
5a 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
6a 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
7fled home.
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8So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then
9Libnah 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
10with his fathers in the city of David, and
11Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.