2Kings:8:16-24
geneva@2Kings:8:16 @ And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, (note:)Read (2Ki_1:17).(:note) Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
geneva@2Kings:8:17 @ He was two and thirtie yere olde, when he began to reigne: and hee reigned eight yeere in Ierusalem.
geneva@2Kings:8:18 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the (note:)The Holy Spirit shows by this the danger of joining with infidels.(:note) daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
geneva@2Kings:8:19 @ Yet the Lord would not destroy Iudah, for Dauid his seruants sake, as he had promised him to giue him a light, and to his children for euer.
geneva@2Kings:8:20 @ In his days Edom (note:)Which had been subject from David's time until this time of Jehoram.(:note) revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
geneva@2Kings:8:21 @ Therefore Ioram went to Zair, and all his charets with him, and he arose by night, & smote the Edomites which were about him with the captains of the charets, and the people fled into their tents.
geneva@2Kings:8:22 @ Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then (note:)This was a city in Judah given to the Levites, (Jos_21:13) that later turned from king Jehoram, because of his idolatry.(:note) Libnah revolted at the same time.
geneva@2Kings:8:23 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Ioram and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?
geneva@2Kings:8:24 @ And Ioram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid; Ahaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.
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