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.
slew all
2 Chronicles 21:17 And they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away …
2 Chronicles 22:8,10 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment on the …
Genesis 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when …
Judges 9:5,56,57 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers …
1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And …
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.
Howbeit
2 Chronicles 22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of …
Isaiah 7:6,7 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach …
because
2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an …
Psalm 89:28-34,39 My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall …
Jeremiah 33:20-26 Thus said the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and …
as he promised
2 Samuel 7:12-17 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, …
1 Kings 11:13,36 However, I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one …
2 Kings 8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, …
Psalm 132:11,17,18 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of …
Luke 1:69,79 And has raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his …
light [heb] lamp, or candle
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.
Libnah
Joshua 21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her …
2 Kings 19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against …
because
2 Chronicles 13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; …
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have …
1 Kings 11:31,33 And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces: for thus said the LORD, …
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the …
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,
A.M.
2 Kings 2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven …
Jeremiah 36:2,23,28-32 Take you a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I …
Ezekiel 2:9,10 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent to me; and, see, a roll …
Daniel 5:5,25-29 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand…
Elijah the prophet If the account of the translation of Elijah be given in the order in which it happened, then it occurred in the reign of Jehoshaphat, the father of Jehoram. Hence, it is probable that he wrote it before his assumption, and left it to be delivered by Elisha or one of the prophets.
2 Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, …
in the ways of Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 17:3,4 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first …
1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside …
in the ways of Asa
2 Chronicles 14:2-5 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God…
1 Kings 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did …
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:
in the way
1 Kings 16:25,30-33 But Omri worked evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than …
a whoring
2 Chronicles 21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused …
Exodus 34:15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they …
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …
2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, …
Jeremiah 3:8,9 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed …
hast slain
2 Chronicles 21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened …
Genesis 4:10-12 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood …
Genesis 42:21,22 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our …
Judges 9:56,57 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his …
1 Kings 2:31-33 And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and …
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants …
Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And …
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
by disease This is supposed to have been a violent dysentery, a disease which is often attended with symptoms similar to those described in the text; by the same death perished Antiochus Ephiphenes, and Herod Agrippa.
2 Chronicles 21:18,19 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease…
Numbers 5:27 And when he has made her to drink the water, then it shall come to …
Deuteronomy 28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the …
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
thy bowels fall
Psalm 109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let …
Acts 1:18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling …
the sickness
2 Chronicles 21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Deuteronomy 28:27,37,59,67 The LORD will smite you with the botch of Egypt, and with the tumors, …
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
A.M.
2 Chronicles 33:11 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of …
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he …
1 Kings 11:11,14,23 Why the LORD said to Solomon, For as much as this is done of you, …
Ezra 1:1,5 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the …
Isaiah 10:5,6 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my …
Isaiah 45:5-7 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: …
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …
Philistines
2 Chronicles 17:11 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute …
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.
