Jehoram Reigns in Judah

2 Kings 8

16 In the fifth year of i Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, 1 Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign. 17 He was j thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for k the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 19 Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, l since he promised to give m a lamp to him and to his sons forever.

20 In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up n a king of their own. 21 Then Joram 2 passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army o fled home. 22 p So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then q Libnah revolted at the same time. 23 Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 24 So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried r with his fathers in the city of David, and s Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 1:17
    So he died according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.
    2 Kings 3:1
    In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twelve years.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:17 - 24
    He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
    2 Chronicles 21:5 - 10
    Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
  3. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:26
    Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
  4. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:12 - 13
    When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
    Psalms 132:11
    The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:36
    Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
    1 Kings 15:4
    Nevertheless, for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem.
    2 Samuel 21:17
    But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 3:9
    So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
    1 Kings 22:47
    There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.
  7. Cross References
    2 Samuel 18:17
    And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 27:40
    By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck.
  9. Cross References
    Joshua 10:29 - 30
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.
  10. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 21:20
    He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
  11. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 21:17
    And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.
    2 Chronicles 22:6
    And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded.
    2 Chronicles 25:23
    And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
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