Book 39 : KETUVIM - 2 CHRONICLES - Chapter 021
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And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead
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And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and
Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariahu, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were
the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel
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And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of
gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom
gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born
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Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his
father, and had strengthened himself, he 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, as did the
house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which
was evil in the sight of HaShem
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Howbeit HaShem would not destroy the house of David,
because of the covenant that He had made with David, and as He promised to give
a lamp to him and to his children alway
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In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
made a king over themselves
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Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his
chariots with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that
compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots
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So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day; then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand; because he had
forsaken HaShem, the G-d of his fathers
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Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah,
and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, and drew Judah away
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And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet,
saying: 'Thus saith HaShem, the G-d 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 astray, like as the house
of Ahab made Israel to go astray; and also hast slain thy brethren of thy
father's house, who were better than thyself
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behold, HaShem will smite with a great plague thy people,
and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance
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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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And HaShem stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians
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and they came up against Judah, and broke 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 HaShem smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease
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And it came to pass, that in process of time, at the end
of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and 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 he departed joyless; and they
buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings
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