¹⁶Now in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah.^e ¹⁷He was thirty-two years old^f when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. ¹⁸He walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife, and he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. ¹⁹Yet Yahweh was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as he had promised to give him a lamp for his sons always.

²⁰In his days, Edom rebelled against the rule^g of Judah, and they set up a king over them. ²¹So Joram crossed over to Zair and all the chariots with him. It happened that he arose by night and attacked Edom who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots; but the army fled to their tents. ²²So Edom has rebelled against the rule^h of Judah until this day; then Libnah also rebelled at that time. ²³The remainder of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? ²⁴So Joram slept with his ancestors,ⁱ and he was buried with his ancestors^j in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son became king in place of him.

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Footnotes

eThis may indicate a coregency in Judah at the time.
fLiterally “a son of thirty and two years”
gLiterally “from under the hand”
hLiterally “from under the hand”
iOr “fathers”
jOr “fathers”