FLOGVIT
.bible

Andra KrönikebokenKapitel 21

Detta kapitel finns ännu inte på svenska — visar originaltexten.

+ SekundärtextGrundtext← FöregåendeNästa →Bidra
Then Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Jehoram became king in his place.
He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael, and Shephatiah. All of these were sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.[^1] [^1]: Jehoshaphat ruled Judah; here the writer calls him king of Israel, using that name for the whole covenant people.
Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, along with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
When Jehoram had taken hold of his father's kingdom and made himself secure, he put all his brothers to the sword, and some of the officials of Israel as well.
Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married a daughter of Ahab. He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant he had made with David, and because he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
In his days Edom rebelled against the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.
So Jehoram crossed over with his commanders and all his chariots. He rose by night and struck down the Edomites who had surrounded him, along with their chariot commanders.
So Edom has been in rebellion against the rule of Judah to this day. At the same time Libnah also revolted against his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.
He also built high places in the hills of Judah, led the people of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, and drew Judah astray.
Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, which said: "This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, just as the house of Ahab led Israel astray, and because you have murdered your own brothers, your father's house, men better than yourself—
the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a heavy blow.
And you yourself will suffer a severe illness, a disease of the bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day after day."
The LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
They came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king's palace, together with his sons and his wives. Not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest.
After all this, the LORD struck him with an incurable disease of the bowels.
In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in terrible agony. His people made no fire in his honor, as they had done for his fathers.
He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He passed away, to no one's regret, and they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
←→