2 Chronicles 21

¹ And Jehoshaphat lies with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigns in his stead. ² And he has brethren, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these [are] sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel, ³ and their father gives to them many gifts of silver and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah, and the kingdom he has given to Jehoram, for He [is] the first-born. ⁴ And Jehoram rises up over the kingdom of his father, and strengthens himself, and slays all his brethren with the sword, and also - of the heads of Israel. ⁵ A son of thirty and two years [is] Jehoram in his reigning, and eight years he has reigned in Jerusalem, ⁶ and he walks in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab has been to him for a wife, and he does the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, ⁷ and Yahweh has not been willing to destroy the house of David, for the sake of the covenant that He made with David, and as He had said to give to him a lamp, and to his sons - all the days. ⁸ In his days has Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and cause a king to reign over them; ⁹ and Jehoram passes over with his heads, and all the chariots with him, and it comes to pass, he has risen by night and smites the Edomites who are coming round against him, and the princes of the chariots, ¹⁰ and Edom revolts from under the hand of Judah unto this day; then does Libnah revolt at that time from under his hand, because he has forsaken Yahweh, Elohim of his fathers, ¹¹ also, he has made high places in the mountains of Judah, and causes the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom, and compels Judah. ¹² And there comes in unto him a writing from Elijah the prophet, saying, "Thus said Yahweh, Elohim of David your father, Because that you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, and in the ways of Asa king of Judah, ¹³ and you do walk in the way of the kings of Israel, and do cause Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also your brethren, the house of your father, who are better than yourself, you have slain; ¹⁴ lo, Yahweh is smiting - a great smiting - among your people, and among your sons, and among your wives, and among all your goods, ¹⁵ and you, with many sicknesses, with disease of your bowels, till your bowels come out, by the sickness, day by day." ¹⁶ And Yahweh wakes up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who [are] beside the Cushim, ¹⁷ and they come up into Judah, and rend it, and take captive all the substance that is found at the house of the king, and also his sons, and his wives, and there has not been left to him a son except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons. ¹⁸ And after all this has Yahweh plagued him in his bowels by a disease for which there is no healing, ¹⁹ and it comes to pass, from days to days, and at the time of the going out of the end of two years, his bowels have gone out with his sickness, and he dies of sore diseases, and his people have not made for him a burning like the burning of his fathers. ²⁰ A son of thirty and two [years] was he in his reigning, and eight years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and he goes without desire, and they bury him in the city of David, and not in the graves of the kings.