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Then Jehoramcrossedover with his commanders and all his chariots with him. And he arose by night and struckdown the Edomites who were surrounding him and the commanders of the chariots.
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Then a lettercame to him from Elijah the prophetsaying, "Thussays the LORDGod of your fatherDavid, 'Because* you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asaking of Judah,
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but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahabplayed the harlot, and you have alsokilled your brothers, your own family*, who were betterthan you,