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1 Now Je­hoshaphat slept with his fa­thers, and was buried with his fa­thers in the city of David. And Je­ho­ram his son reigned in his stead. 2 And he had brethren the sons of Je­hoshaphat, Azari­ah, and Je­hiel, and Zechari­ah, and Azari­ah, and Michael, and Shep­ha­ti­ah: all these were the sons of Je­hoshaphat king of Is­rael. 3 And their fa­ther gave them great gifts of sil­ver, and of gold, and of pre­cious things, with fenced cities in Ju­dah: but the king­dom gave he to Je­ho­ram; be­cause he was the first­born. 4 Now when Je­ho­ram was risen up to the king­dom of his fa­ther, he strength­ened him­self, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Is­rael. 5 Je­ho­ram was thir­ty and two years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Is­rael, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daugh­ter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD. 7 How­beit the LORD would not de­stroy the house of David, be­cause of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ev­er. 8 In his days the Edomites re­volt­ed from un­der the do­min­ion of Ju­dah, and made them­selves a king. 9 Then Je­ho­ram went forth with his princes, and all his char­i­ots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which com­passed him in, and the cap­tains of the char­i­ots. 10 So the Edomites re­volt­ed from un­der the hand of Ju­dah unto this day. The same time also did Lib­nah re­volt from un­der his hand; be­cause he had for­sak­en the LORD God of his fa­thers. 11 More­over he made high places in the moun­tains of Ju­dah, and caused the in­hab­i­tants of Jerusalem to com­mit for­ni­ca­tion, and com­pelled Ju­dah thereto. 12 And there came a writ­ing to him from Eli­jah the prophet, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD God 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, 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Is­rael, and hast made Ju­dah and the in­hab­i­tants of Jerusalem to go a whor­ing, like to the whore­doms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were bet­ter than thy­self: 14 Be­hold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy peo­ple, and thy chil­dren, and thy wives, and all thy goods: 15 And thou shalt have great sick­ness by dis­ease of thy bow­els, un­til thy bow­els fall out by rea­son of the sick­ness day by day. 16 More­over the LORD stirred up against Je­ho­ram the spir­it of the Philistines, and of the Ara­bi­ans, that were near the Ethiopi­ans: 17 And they came up into Ju­dah, and brake 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. 18 And af­ter all this the LORD smote him in his bow­els with an in­cur­able dis­ease. 19 And it came to pass, that in pro­cess of time, af­ter the end of two years, his bow­els fell out by rea­son of his sick­ness: so he died of sore dis­eases. And his peo­ple made no burn­ing for him, like the burn­ing of his fa­thers. 20 Thir­ty and two years old was he when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and de­part­ed with­out be­ing de­sired. How­beit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepul­chres of the kings.