2Kings:8:16-24
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And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel ,
Jehoshaphat [
being ]
then king of Judah , (
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Read (
2Ki_1
:17 ).(:
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Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign .
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He was two and thirtie yere olde ,
when he began to reigne :
and hee reigned eight yeere in Ierusalem .
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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel ,
as did the house of Ahab :
for the (
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The Holy Spirit shows by this the danger of joining with infidels .(:
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daughter of Ahab was his wife :
and he did evil in the sight of the LORD .
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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 .
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In his days Edom (
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Which had been subject from David '
s time until this time of Jehoram .(:
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revolted from under the hand of Judah ,
and made a king over themselves .
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Therefore Ioram went to Zair ,
and all his charets with him ,
and he arose by night , &
amp ;
smote the Edomites which were about him with the captains of the charets ,
and the people fled into their tents .
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Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day .
Then (
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This was a city in Judah given to the Levites , (
Jos_21
:13 )
that later turned from king Jehoram ,
because of his idolatry .(:
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Libnah revolted at the same time .
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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 ?
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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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