Jehoram Comes to the Throne of Judah

¹⁶ Sometime during the fifth year of the reign of Ahab’s son Joram, king of Israel (while Jehoshaphat was still ruling as king of Judah), Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram ascended to the throne of Judah. ¹⁷ He was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. ¹⁸ He lived his life like the kings of Israel did, following the example of Ahab’s household when he married Ahab’s daughter and practiced what was evil in the Lord’s presence.^{[a] 19} But the Lord remained unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of his servant David, since he had promised to keep^[b] David’s lamp burning brightly through his descendants every day.

²⁰ During Jehoram’s lifetime, Edom rebelled from Judah’s hegemony and appointed a king to rule over themselves. ²¹ Then Joram crossed over to Zair, along with all of his chariots. At night he attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the commanders of his chariots, but the army^[c] ran away to their tents. ²² Edom remains in rebellion against Judah to this day, and Libnah revolted at the same time. ²³ The rest of the official^[d] acts of Joram, along with everything else that he did, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah,^[e] are they not?

Ahaziah Succeeds Jehoram

²⁴ After Jehoram was laid to rest with his ancestors in the City of David, his son Ahaziah replaced him as king.