2 Chronicles 21:5–20

^5bJehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. ⁶And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had the daughter of ^cAhab as a wife; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord. ⁷Yet the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of the ^dcovenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his ^esons forever.

^8fIn his days Edom revolted against Judah’s authority, and made a king over themselves. ⁹So Jehoram went out with his officers, and all his chariots with him. And he rose by night and attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots. ¹⁰Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah’s authority to this day. At that time Libnah revolted against his rule, because he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers. ¹¹Moreover he made ³high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to ^gcommit harlotry, and led Judah astray.

¹²And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,

Thus says the Lord God of your father David:

Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah, ¹³but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have ^hmade Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to ⁱplay the harlot like the ^jharlotry of the house of Ahab, and also have ^kkilled your brothers, those of your father’s household, who were better than yourself, ¹⁴behold, the Lord will strike your people with a serious affliction—your children, your wives, and all your possessions; ¹⁵and you will become very sick with a ^ldisease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

¹⁶Moreover the ^mLord ⁿstirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the ^oArabians who were near the Ethiopians. ¹⁷And they came up into Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, and also ^phis sons and his wives, so that there was not a son left to him except ⁴Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

¹⁸After all this the Lord struck him ^qin his intestines with an incurable disease. ¹⁹Then it happened in the course of time, after the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness; so he died in severe pain. And his people made no ⁵burning for him, like ^rthe burning for his fathers.

²⁰He was thirty-two years old when he became king. He reigned in Jerusalem eight years and, to no one’s sorrow, departed. However they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.