2 Chronicles 21
1 And Josaphat slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the city of David: and Joran his son reigned in his stead.
2 And he had brothers, the six sons of
Josaphat, Azarias, and Jeiel, and Zacharias, and Azarias, and Michael, and
Zaphatias: all these were the sons of Josaphat king
of Juda. 3 And their father gave them
many gifts, silver, and gold, and arms, together with fortified cities in
Juda: but he gave the kingdom to Joram, for he
was the first-born.
4 And Joram entered upon his kingdom,
and strengthened himself, and slew all his brothers with the sword, and
some of the princes of Israel.
5 When he was thirty and two years
old, Joram succeeded to his kingdom, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the
kings of Israel, as did the house of Achaab; for a daughter of Achaab was his
wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord:
7 nevertheless the Lord would not
utterly destroy the house of David, because of the covenant which he made with
David, and as he said to him that he would give a light to him and his sons
for ever.
8 In those days Edom revolted from
Juda, and they made a king over themselves.
9 And Joram went with the princes, and
all the cavalry with him: and it came to pass that he arose by night, and
smote Edom that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots, and the
people fled to their tents. 10 And
Edom revolted from Juda until this day. Then Lomna at that time revolted from
under his hand, because he forsook the Lord God of
his fathers. 11 For he built high
places in the cities of Juda, and caused the dwellers in Jerusalem to go
a-whoring, and led Juda astray.
12 And there came to him
a message in writing from Eliu the prophet, saying,
Thus saith the Lord God of thy father David, Because thou hast not walked in
the way of thy father Josaphat, nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda,
13 but hast walked in the ways of the
kings of Israel, and hast caused Juda and the dwellers in Jerusalem to go
a-whoring, as the house of Achaab caused Israel to go
a-whoring, and thou hast slain thy brethren, the sons of thy father, who were
better than thyself; 14 behold, the
Lord shall smite thee with a great plague among thy people, and thy sons, and
thy wives, and all thy store: 15 and
thou shalt be afflicted with a grievous disease, with
a disease of the bowels, until thy bowels shall fall out day by day with the
sickness.
16 So the Lord stirred up the
Philistines against Joram, and the Arabians, and those who bordered on the
Æthiopians: 17 and they went up
against Juda, and prevailed against them, and took away all the store which
they found in the house of the king, and his sons, and his daughters; and
there was no son left to him but Ochozias the youngest of his sons.
18 And after all these things the
Lord smote him in the bowels with an incurable disease.
19 And it continued from day to day:
and when the time of the days came to two years, his
bowels fell out with the disease, and he died by a grievous distemper: and his
people performed no funeral, like the funeral of his fathers.
20 He was thirty and two years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he
departed without honour, and was buried in the city of David, but not in the
tombs of the kings.