2 Chronicles 21 - Summary

Jehoshaphat died and Jehoram his firstborn succeeded him, immediately slaughtering all his brothers and some princes of Israel with the sword to secure his throne. He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab's daughter Athaliah, yet the Lord would not destroy the house of David because of the covenant to maintain a lamp for David and his sons forever. Edom and Libnah revolted successfully during his reign, and a letter came from Elijah the prophet pronouncing doom: because Jehoram had led Judah into harlotry like Ahab's house and murdered his brothers who were better than he, the Lord would strike his people, his sons, his wives, and all his goods, and Jehoram himself would die of a severe bowel disease; the Philistines and Arabs invaded, carrying off his possessions and sons except Jehoahaz the youngest, and after two years of agonizing illness Jehoram died unlamented, buried without honor in the city of David but not in the royal tombs.