The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 21:15 (ESV)

and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’”

 

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2 Chronicles 21:16 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 21:17 (NRSV)

They came up against Judah, invaded it, and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king’s house, along with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 21:18 (NRSV)

Disease and Death of Jehoram

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

 

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2 Chronicles 21:19 New International Version (NIV)
19 In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 21:20 (NRSV)

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

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 22:1 (YLT)

And the inhabitants of Jerusalem cause Ahaziah his youngest son to reign in his stead, (for all the elder had the troop slain that came in with the Arabians to the camp,) and Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah reigneth.

 

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2 Chronicles 22:2 (NIV)
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

 

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2 Chronicles 22:3 (KJV)
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 22:4 (NRSV)

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done; for after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his ruin.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 22:5 (NRSV)

He even followed their advice, and went with Jehoram son of King Ahab of Israel to make war against King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram,

 

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2 Chronicles 22:6 (HCSB)
so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they inflicted on him in Ramoth-gilead when he fought against Aram's King Hazael. Then Judah's King Ahaziah son of Jehoram went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab since Joram was ill.

 

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2 Chronicles 22:7 (ERV)
Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went unto Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

 

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2 Chronicles 22:8 (ERV)
And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them.

 

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2 Chronicles 22:9 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him--now he was hiding in Samaria--and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said: 'He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.' And there was none of the house of Ahaziah that had power to hold the kingdom.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 22:10 (NASB)

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 22:11 (NASB)

But Jehoshabeath the king’s daughter took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and placed him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah so that she would not put him to death.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 22:12 (KJV)
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 23:1 (KJV)

Joash Made King​

1. And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 23:2 (KJV)

And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.