2Chronicles:21

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* Iehoshaphat then slept with his fathers , and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid : and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his steade . * And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat , Azariah , and Jehiel , and Zechariah , and Azariah , and Michael , and Shephatiah : all these [were ] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of (note :)Read ( 2Ch_15:17 ) how by Israel he meant Judah .(:note ) Israel . * And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde , and of precious things , with strong cities in Iudah , but the kingdome gaue he to Iehoram : for he was the eldest . * Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father , he strengthened himself , and (note :)Because the wicked always live in fear , and also are ambitious , they become cruel and spare not to murder them , whom by nature they ought most to cherish and defend .(:note ) slew all his brethren with the sword , and [divers ] also of the princes of Meaning , of Judah and Benjamin . Israel . * Iehoram was two and thirtie yeere olde , when he began to reigne , and he reigned eyght yeere in Ierusalem . * And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel , like as did the house of Ahab : for he had the daughter of Ahab to (note :)So that we see how it cannot be that we should join with the wicked and serve God .(:note ) wife : and he wrought [that which was ] evil in the eyes of the LORD . * Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of Dauid , because of the couenant that he had made with Dauid , and because he had promised to giue a light to him , and to his sonnes for euer . * In his dayes Edom rebelled from vnder the hand of Iudah , and made a King ouer them . * And Iehoram went forth with his princes , and all his charets with him : and hee rose vp by night , &amp ; smote Edom , which had compassed him in , and the captaines of the charets . * So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day . The same time [also ] did (note :)Read ( 2Ki_8:22 ).(:note ) Libnah revolt from under his hand ; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers . * Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah , and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit (note :)Meaning , idolatry because the idolater breaks promise with God as the adulteress does to her husband .(:note ) fornication , and compelled Judah [thereto ]. * And there came a writing to him from (note :)Some think that this was Elisha so called because he had the Spirit in abundance , as had Elijah .(:note ) Elijah the prophet , saying , Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father , Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father , nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah , * But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel , &amp ; hast made Iudah &amp ; the inhabitantes of Ierusalem to go a whoring , as the house of Ahab went a whoring , &amp ; hast also slaine thy brethre of thy fathers house , which were better then thou , * Beholde , with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people , and thy children , and thy wiues , and all thy substance , * And thou [shalt have ] great sickness by disease of thy bowels , until (note :)We see this example daily practised on them who fall away from God , and become idolaters and murderers of their brethren .(:note ) thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day . * Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines , and of the Arabians , that [were ] near the (note :)There were other Arabians in Africa southward toward Egypt .(:note ) Ethiopians : * And they came up into Judah , and brake into it , and carried away all the substance that was found in the king 's house , and his sons also , and his wives ; so that there was never a son left him , save (note :)Called also Ahaziah , as in ( 2Ch_22:1 ) or Azariah in ( 2Ch_22:6 ).(:note ) Jehoahaz , the youngest of his sons . * And after all this , the Lorde smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease . * And in processe of time , euen after the end of two yeeres , his guttes fell out with his disease : so he dyed of sore diseases : &amp ; his people made no burning for him like the burning of his fathers . * Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign , and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years , (note :)That is , as some write , he was not regarded but deposed for his wickedness and idolatry so that his son reigned 22 years (his father yet living ) without honour , and after his father 's death he was confirmed to reign still , as in ( 2Ch_22:2 ).(:note ) and departed without being desired . Howbeit they buried him in the city of David , but not in the sepulchres of the kings .

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