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2 Chronicles 21:10-12
New Catholic Bible
2 Chronicles 21:10-12
New Catholic Bible
10 However, Edom has remained in rebellion against the sovereignty of Judah to the present day. Libnah revolted against the rule of Jehoram at the same time because he had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers, 11 and because he had established shrines in the hill country of Judah, leading the inhabitants of Jerusalem into idolatry and the people of Judah into apostasy.
12 Retribution. A letter came to Jehoram from the prophet Elijah with this message: “Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David: ‘You have not followed the example of your father Jehoshaphat, nor of Asa, king of Judah,[a]
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- 2 Chronicles 21:12 Either Elijah was still alive, or he had already disappeared (his end in 2 Ki 2:1-11 precedes the story of Joram, but this is not a decisive argument). In the second case, Elijah may have had prophetic foresight of the future and have written his vision down with orders to make it known at the proper time.
