2 Kings 8:16-29

English Standard Version

Jehoram Reigns in Judah

¹⁶ In the fifth year of ^(A)Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah,^[a] Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign. ¹⁷ He was ^(B)thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. ¹⁸ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for ^(C)the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁹ Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, ^(D)since he promised to give ^(E)a lamp to him and to his sons forever.

²⁰ In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up ^(F)a king of their own. ²¹ Then Joram^[b] passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army ^(G)fled home. ^22 (H)So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then ^(I)Libnah revolted at the same time. ²³ Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ²⁴ So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried ^(J)with his fathers in the city of David, and ^(K)Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

Ahaziah Reigns in Judah

^25 (L)In the ^(M)twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign. ²⁶ Ahaziah was ^(N)twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah; she was ^(O)a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. ²⁷ He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

²⁸ He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against ^(P)Hazael king of Syria at ^(Q)Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. ^29 (R)And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at ^(S)Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And ^(T)Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.