2 Chronicles 21
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Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

Israel. Jehoshaphat was certainly not king of Israel, but of Judah; Israel must therefore be a mistake for Yehoodah; which is the reading of {thirty-eight} of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and of the Syriac, Arabic, Septuagint, and Vulgate.

And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.

gave them

2 Chronicles 11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout …

Genesis 25:6 But to the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave …

Deuteronomy 21:15-17 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they …

the kingdom
He associated him with himself in the kingdom about three years before his death, and in the fifth year of Joram king of Israel; so that Jehoram reigned three years with his father, and five years alone, in all eight years.

Jehoram `Jehoram made partner of the kingdom with his father,

1 Kings 8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, …

Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

Moreover

Deuteronomy 12:2-4 You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which …

1 Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination …

Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved …

Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted …

caused

1 Kings 14:9,16 But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone …

2 Kings 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has …

Habakkuk 2:15 Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, that put your bottle to …

Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer …

fornication

2 Chronicles 21:13 But have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made …

Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to devils, after whom …

Leviticus 20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, …

2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, …

Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with …

Ezekiel 16:15 But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because …

Revelation 2:20-22 Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer …

Revelation 17:1-5 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, …

compelled

2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and …

Daniel 3:5,6,15 That at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, …

Revelation 13:15-17 And he had power to give life to the image of the beast, that the …

Revelation 17:5,6 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, …

And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

plague [heb] stroke

Leviticus 26:21 And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will …

thy people Many of the people had concurred in Jehoram's idolatry, and some of them must have been instruments in his base, unnatural murders; they were therefore joined in his punishment, and he suffered by the loss of his subjects.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly …

Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house …

thy children

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …

And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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