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And in the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat
being then king of Judah, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
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He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Yet with all this, the LORD would not destroy Judah for David, his slave’s sake, as he had promised him to give him always a light of his sons.
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In his days, Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves.
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So Joram went over to Zair and all his chariots with him, and he rose up by night and smote the Edomites, who had compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled into their tents.
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Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
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And 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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And Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Ahaziah, his son, reigned in his stead.
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In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, began to reign.
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Ahaziah
was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.