⁵⁰ Then Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of David his father. And Jehoram his son succeeded him as king.

¹⁷ So he died,^(A) according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken.

Because Ahaziah had no son, Joram^[a](B) succeeded him as king in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.

Jehoram King of Judah^(A)

¹⁶ In the fifth year of Joram^(B) son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram^(C) son of Jehoshaphat began his reign as king of Judah.

Ahaziah King of Judah^(A)

²⁵ In the twelfth^(B) year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

²⁹ so King Joram returned to Jezreel^(A) to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramoth^[a] in his battle with Hazael^(B) king of Aram.

Then Ahaziah^(C) son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab, because he had been wounded.

¹⁸ But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the Lord and of the royal palace, and he sent^(A) them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew^(B) from Jerusalem.

¹⁶ The Lord aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs^(A) who lived near the Cushites.