¹Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David ’s city ; and Jehoram his son reigned in his place .

²He had brothers , the sons of Jehoshaphat : Azariah , Jehiel , Zechariah , Azariah , Michael , and Shephatiah . All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel .

³Their father gave them great gifts of silver , of gold , and of precious things , with fortified cities in Judah ; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram , because he was the firstborn .

⁴Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself , he killed all his brothers with the sword , and also some of the princes of Israel .

⁵Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign , and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem .

⁶He walked in the way of the kings of Israel , as did Ahab’s house , for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight .

⁷However the LORD would not destroy David ’s house , because of the covenant that he had made with David , and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always .

⁸In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah , and made a king over themselves .

⁹Then Jehoram went there with his captains and all his chariots with him . He rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him , along with the captains of the chariots .

¹⁰So Edom has been in revolt from under the hand of Judah to this day . Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand , because he had forsaken the LORD , the God of his fathers.

¹¹Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah , and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute , and led Judah astray .

¹²A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet , saying, “the LORD , the God of David your father, says , ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah ,

¹³but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel , and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did , and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house , who were better than yourself,

¹⁴behold , the LORD will strike your people with a great plague , including your children , your wives, and all your possessions ;

¹⁵and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels , until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness , day by day .’”

¹⁶The LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians ;

¹⁷and they came up against Judah , broke into it , and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king ’s house , including his sons and his wives, so that there was no son left to him except Jehoahaz , the youngest of his sons .

¹⁸After all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease .

¹⁹In process of time , at the end of two years , his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness , and he died of severe diseases . His people made no burning for him , like the burning of his fathers.

²⁰He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign , and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years . He departed with no one ’s regret . They buried him in David ’s city , but not in the tombs of the kings .