2Chronicles:21:4-20
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Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father ,
he strengthened himself ,
and slew all his brethren with the sword ,
and divers also of the princes of Israel .
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Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem .
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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 wife :
and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD .
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Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David ,
because of the covenant that he had made with David ,
and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever .
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In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah ,
and made themselves a king .
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Then Jehoram went forth with his princes ,
and all his chariots with him :
and he rose up by night ,
and smote the Edomites which compassed him in ,
and the captains of the chariots .
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So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day .
The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand ;
because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers .
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Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah ,
and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication ,
and compelled Judah thereto .
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And there came a writing to him from 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 ,
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But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel ,
and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring ,
like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab ,
and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father '
s house ,
which were better than thyself :
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Behold ,
with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people ,
and thy children ,
and thy wives ,
and all thy goods :
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And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels ,
until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day .
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Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines ,
and of the Arabians ,
that were near the Ethiopians :
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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 Jehoahaz ,
the youngest of his sons .
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And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease .
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And it came to pass ,
that in process of time ,
after the end of two years ,
his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness :
so he died of sore diseases .
And his people made no burning for him ,
like the burning of his fathers .
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Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign ,
and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years ,
and departed without being desired .
Howbeit they buried him in the city of David ,
but not in the sepulchres of the kings .