ASV_Strong : 2 Chronicles 21
1. And Jehoshaphat[H3092] slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1], and was buried[H6912] with his fathers[H1] in the city[H5892] of David[H1732]: and Jehoram[H3088] his son[H1121] reigned in his stead[H4427].
2. And he had brethren[H251], the sons[H1121] of Jehoshaphat[H3092]: Azariah[H5838], and Jehiel[H3171], and Zechariah[H2148], and Azariah[H5838], and Michael[H4317], and Shephatiah[H8203]; all these were the sons[H1121] of Jehoshaphat[H3092] king[H4428] of Israel[H3478].
3. And their father[H1] gave[H5414] them great[H7227] gifts[H4979], of silver[H3701], and of gold[H2091], and of precious things[H4030], with fortified[H4694] cities[H5892] in Judah[H3063]: but the kingdom[H4467] gave[H5414] he to Jehoram[H3088], because he was the first-born[H1060].
4. Now when Jehoram[H3088] was risen up[H6965] over the kingdom[H4467] of his father[H1], and had strengthened[H2388] himself[H2026], he slew all his brethren[H251] with the sword[H2719], and divers also of the princes[H8269] of Israel[H3478].
5. Jehoram[H3088] was thirty[H7970] and two[H8147] years[H8141] old[H1121] when he began to reign[H4427]; and he reigned[H4427] eight[H8083] years[H8141] in Jerusalem[H3389].
6. And he walked[H3212] in the way[H1870] of the kings[H4428] of Israel[H3478], as did[H6213] the house[H1004] of Ahab[H256]; for he had the daughter[H1323] of Ahab[H256] to wife[H802]: and he did[H6213] that which was evil[H7451] in the sight[H5869] of Jehovah[H3068].
7. Howbeit Jehovah[H3068] would[H14] not destroy[H7843] the house[H1004] of David[H1732], because of the covenant[H1285] that he had made[H3772] with David[H1732], and as he promised[H559] to give[H5414] a lamp[H5216] to him and to his children[H1121] alway[H3117].
8. In his days[H3117] Edom[H123] revolted[H6586] from under the hand[H3027] of Judah[H3063], and made[H4427] a king over themselves[H4428].
9. Then Jehoram[H3088] passed over[H5674] with his captains[H8269], and all his chariots[H7393] with him[H6965]: and he rose up by night[H3915], and smote[H5221] the Edomites[H123] that compassed him about[H5437], and the captains[H8269] of the chariots[H7393].
10. So Edom[H123] revolted[H6586] from under the hand[H3027] of Judah[H3063] unto this day[H3117]: then did Libnah[H3841] revolt[H6586] at the same time[H6256] from under his hand[H3027], because he had forsaken[H5800] Jehovah[H3068], the God[H430] of his fathers[H1].
11. Moreover he made[H6213] high places[H1116] in the mountains[H2022] of Judah[H3063], and made the inhabitants[H3427] of Jerusalem[H3389] to play the harlot[H2181], and led[H5080] Judah astray[H3063].
12. And there came[H935] a writing[H4385] to him from Elijah[H452] the prophet[H5030], saying[H559], Thus saith[H559] Jehovah[H3068], the God[H430] of David[H1732] thy father[H1], Because thou hast not walked[H1980] in the ways[H1870] of Jehoshaphat[H3092] thy father[H1], nor in the ways[H1870] of Asa[H609] king[H4428] of Judah[H3063],
13. but hast walked[H3212] in the way[H1870] of the kings[H4428] of Israel[H3478], and hast made Judah[H3063] and the inhabitants[H3427] of Jerusalem[H3389] to play the harlot[H2181], like[H2181] as the house[H1004] of Ahab[H256] did[H2026], and also hast slain thy brethren[H251] of thy father[H1]'s house[H1004], who were better than thyself[H2896]:
14. behold[H3068], Jehovah will smite[H5062] with a great[H1419] plague[H4046] thy people[H5971], and thy children[H1121], and thy wives[H802], and all thy substance[H7399];
15. and thou shalt have great[H7227] sickness[H2483] by disease[H4245] of thy bowels[H4578], until thy bowels[H4578] fall out[H3318] by reason of the sickness[H2483], day[H3117] by day[H3117].
16. And Jehovah[H3068] stirred up[H5782] against Jehoram[H3088] the spirit[H7307] of the Philistines[H6430], and of the Arabians[H6163] that are beside[H5921] the Ethiopians[H3569]:
17. and they came up[H5927] against Judah[H3063], and brake[H1234] into it[H7617], and carried away all the substance[H7399] that was found[H4672] in the king[H4428]'s house[H1004], and his sons[H1121] also[H802], and his wives; so that there was never a son[H1121] left[H7604] him[H3059], save Jehoahaz, the youngest[H6996] of his sons[H1121].
18. And after[H310] all this Jehovah[H3068] smote[H5062] him in his bowels[H4578] with an incurable[H369] disease[H2483].
19. And it came to pass[H3117], in process of time, at[H3318] the end[H7093] of two[H8147] years[H3117], that his bowels[H4578] fell out[H3318] by reason[H5973] of his sickness[H2483], and he died[H4191] of sore[H7451] diseases[H8463]. And his people[H5971] made[H6213] no burning[H8316] for him[H8316], like the burning of his fathers[H1].
20. Thirty[H7970] and two[H8147] years old[H1121] was he when he began to reign[H4427], and he reigned[H4427] in Jerusalem[H3389] eight[H8083] years[H8141]: and he departed[H3212] without being desired[H2532]; and they buried[H6912] him in the city[H5892] of David[H1732], but not in the sepulchres[H6913] of the kings[H4428].
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