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Now Jehoshaphat[H3092]slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1], and was buried[H6912] with his fathers[H1] in the city[H5892] of David[H1732]. And Jehoram[H3088] his son[H1121]reigned[H4427] in his stead.
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And he had brethren[H251] the sons[H1121] of Jehoshaphat[H3092], Azariah[H5838], and Jehiel[H3171], and Zechariah[H2148], and Azariah[H5838], and Michael[H4317], and Shephatiah[H8203]: all these were the sons[H1121] of Jehoshaphat[H3092]king[H4428] of Israel[H3478].
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And their father[H1]gave[H5414] them great[H7227]gifts[H4979] of silver[H3701], and of gold[H2091], and of precious things[H4030], with fenced[H4694]cities[H5892] in Judah[H3063]: but the kingdom[H4467]gave[H5414] he to Jehoram[H3088]; because he was the firstborn[H1060].
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Now when Jehoram[H3088] was risen up[H6965] to the kingdom[H4467] of his father[H1], he strengthened[H2388] himself, and slew[H2026] all his brethren[H251] with the sword[H2719], and divers also of the princes[H8269] of Israel[H3478].
5Jehoram[H3088] was thirty[H7970] and two[H8147]years[H8141]old[H1121] when he began to reign[H4427], and he reigned[H4427]eight[H8083]years[H8141] in Jerusalem[H3389].
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And he walked[H3212] in the way[H1870] of the kings[H4428] of Israel[H3478], like as did[H6213] the house[H1004] of Ahab[H256]: for he had the daughter[H1323] of Ahab[H256] to wife[H802]: and he wrought[H6213] that which was evil[H7451] in the eyes[H5869] of the LORD[H3068].
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Howbeit the LORD[H3068]would[H14] not destroy[H7843] the house[H1004] of David[H1732], because of the covenant[H1285] that he had made[H3772] with David[H1732], and as he promised[H559] to give[H5414] a light[H5216] to him and to his sons[H1121] for ever[H3117].
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In his days[H3117] the Edomites[H123]revolted[H6586] from under the dominion[H3027] of Judah[H3063], and made[H4427] themselves a king[H4428].
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Then Jehoram[H3088] went forth[H5674] with his princes[H8269], and all his chariots[H7393] with him: and he rose up[H6965] by night[H3915], and smote[H5221] the Edomites[H123] which compassed him in[H5437], and the captains[H8269] of the chariots[H7393].
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So the Edomites[H123]revolted[H6586] from under the hand[H3027] of Judah[H3063] unto this day[H3117]. The same time[H6256] also did Libnah[H3841]revolt[H6586] from under his hand[H3027]; because he had forsaken[H5800] the LORD[H3068]God[H430] of his fathers[H1].
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Moreover he made[H6213] high places[H1116] in the mountains[H2022] of Judah[H3063], and caused the inhabitants[H3427] of Jerusalem[H3389] to commit fornication[H2181], and compelled[H5080]Judah[H3063] thereto.
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And there came[H935] a writing[H4385] to him from Elijah[H452] the prophet[H5030], saying[H559], Thus saith[H559] the LORD[H3068]God[H430] of David[H1732] thy father[H1], Because thou hast not walked[H1980] in the ways[H1870] of Jehoshaphat[H3092] thy father[H1], nor in the ways[H1870] of Asa[H609]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063],
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But hast walked[H3212] in the way[H1870] of the kings[H4428] of Israel[H3478], and hast made Judah[H3063] and the inhabitants[H3427] of Jerusalem[H3389] to go a whoring[H2181], like to the whoredoms[H2181] of the house[H1004] of Ahab[H256], and also hast slain[H2026] thy brethren[H251] of thy father's house[H1004], which were better[H2896] than thyself:
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Behold, with a great[H1419]plague[H4046] will the LORD[H3068]smite[H5062] thy people[H5971], and thy children[H1121], and thy wives[H802], and all thy goods[H7399]:
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And thou shalt have great[H7227]sickness[H2483] by disease[H4245] of thy bowels[H4578], until thy bowels[H4578] fall out[H3318] by reason of the sickness[H2483]day[H3117] by day[H3117].
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Moreover the LORD[H3068] stirred up[H5782] against Jehoram[H3088] the spirit[H7307] of the Philistines[H6430], and of the Arabians[H6163], that were near[H5921] the Ethiopians[H3569]:
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And they came up[H5927] into Judah[H3063], and brake[H1234] into it, and carried away[H7617] all the substance[H7399] that was found[H4672] in the king's house[H1004], and his sons[H1121] also, and his wives[H802]; so that there was never a son[H1121]left[H7604] him, save Jehoahaz[H3059], the youngest[H6996] of his sons[H1121].
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And after[H310] all this the LORD[H3068]smote[H5062] him in his bowels[H4578] with an incurable[H369]disease[H2483].
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And it came to pass, that in process of time[H3117], after[H3318] the end[H7093] of two[H8147]years[H3117], his bowels[H4578] fell out[H3318] by reason[H5973] of his sickness[H2483]: so he died[H4191] of sore[H7451]diseases[H8463]. And his people[H5971]made[H6213] no burning[H8316] for him, like the burning[H8316] of his fathers[H1].
20Thirty[H7970] and two[H8147]years[H8141]old[H1121] was he when he began to reign[H4427], and he reigned[H4427] in Jerusalem[H3389]eight[H8083]years[H8141], and departed[H3212] without being desired[H2532]. Howbeit they buried[H6912] him in the city[H5892] of David[H1732], but not in the sepulchres[H6913] of the kings[H4428].