II Chronicles Chapter 21

II Chronicles Chapter 21
1 Jehoshaphat then 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 strong cities in Judah, but
the kingdom gave he to Jehoram: for he
was the eldest.
4 And Jehoram rose up upon the
kingdom of his father, and made himself
strong, and slew all his brethren with the
sword, and also of the princes of Israel.
5 Jehoram was two and thirty year old,
when he began to reign, and he reigned
eight year in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings
of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done:
for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife,
and he wrought 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 because he had promised to give a
light to him, and to his sons forever.
8 In his days Edom rebelled from under
the hand of Judah, and made a king over
them.
9 And Jehoram went forth with his
princes, and all his chariots with him:
and he rose up by night, and smote
Edom, which had compassed him in, and
the captains of the chariots.
10 But Edom rebelled from under the
hand of Judah unto this day. Then did
Libnah rebel at the same time 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, as the house of Ahab went a
whoring, and hast also slain thy brethren
of thy father's house, which were better
than thou,
14 Behold, with a great plague will the
Lord smite thy people, and thy children,
and thy wives, and all thy substance,
15 And thou shalt be in great diseases in
the disease of thy bowels, until thy
bowels fall out for the disease, day by
day.
16 So the Lord stirred up against
Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and
the Arabians that were beside the
Ethiopians.
17 And they came up into Judah, and
break 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 not 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 in process of time, even after the
end of two years, his guts fell out with
his disease: so he died of sore diseases:
and his people made no burning for him
like the burning of his fathers.
20 When he began to reign, he was two
and thirty year old, and reigned in
Jerusalem eight year, and lived without
being desired: yet they buried him in the
city of David, but not among the
sepulchres of the kings.