Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Chronicles: Chapter 21
1. NOW
Je-hosh-a-phat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David. And Je-hor-am his son reigned in his stead.
2. And he had brethren the sons of Je-hosh-a-phat, Az-a-ri-ah, and Je-hi-el,
and Zech-a-ri-ah and Azariah, and Michael, and Sheph-a-ti-ah: all these
were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
3. 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
Je-hor-am; because he was the firstborn.
4. Now when Je-hor-am 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.
5. Je-hor-am was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah,
and made themselves a king.
9. Then Je-hor-am 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.
10. 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.
11. Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah
thereto.
12. 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 Je-hosh-a-phat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa
king of Judah,
13. 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:
14. Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy
children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
15. And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until
thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
16. Moreover the LORD stirred up against Je-hor-am the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
17. 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 Je-ho-a-haz, the
youngest of his sons.
18. And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease.
19. 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.
20. 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.
June 4
Daily reading schedule.. go to chapter 22
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