14:021:005 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when
he began to reign,
and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
14:021:006 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.
14:021:007 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.
14:021:008 In his days the Edomites revolted from
under the dominion of
Judah,
and made themselves a king.
14:021:009 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.
14:021:010 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.
14:021:011 Moreover he made high places in the mountains
of Judah and
caused
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication,
and
compelled
Judah thereto.
14:021:012 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,
14:021:013 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:
14:021:014 Behold, with a great plague will the lord
smite thy people,
and
thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
14:021:015 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease
of thy bowels,
until
thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by
day.
14:021:016 Moreover the lord stirred up against
Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines,
and of the Arabians, that were near the
Ethiopians:
14:021:017 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.
14:021:018 And after all this the lord smote
him in his bowels with an
incurable
disease.


