2Kings:8:16-24




sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:16 @ And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Achab the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being yet king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah became king.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:17 @ Thirty and two years old was he when he became king, and eight years did he reign in Jerusalem.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:18 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done; for a daughter of Achab had he for wife: and he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:19 @ Yet would the Lord not destroy Judah for the sake of David his servant, as he said unto him, to give him a government and to his children at all times.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:20 @ In his days Edom revolted from under the power of Judah, and they appointed a king over themselves.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:21 @ And Joram went over to Za’ir, and all the chariots were with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites who compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled unto their tents.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:22 @ Yet Edom revolted from under the power of Judah even until this day; then did Libnah revolt at the same time.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:23 @ And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:8:24 @ And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Achazyahu his son became king in his stead.


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