These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 21
Tanakh 20 verses
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And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of ; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
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- 2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and , and Azariahu, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat of .
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And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in ; but the gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.
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Now when Jehoram was risen up over the of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of .
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Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in .
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And he walked in the way of the kings of , as did the house of ; for he had the daughter of to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of .
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- 7 Howbeit would not destroy the house of , because of the that He had made with , and as He promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.
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In his days revolted from under the hand of , and made a over themselves.
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- 9 Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots.
- 10 So revolted from under the hand of unto this day; then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand; because he had forsaken , the of his fathers.
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Moreover he made high places in the mountains of , and made the inhabitants of to go astray, and drew away.
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Leviticus 20:5 Leviticus 17:7 1 Kings 11:7 1 Kings 14:16 Deuteronomy 12:2-4 Daniel 3:15 Revelation 17:1-6 2 Chronicles 33:9 Ezekiel 20:28 Psalm 78:58 Habakkuk 2:15 2 Chronicles 21:13 Ezekiel 16:15-63 Daniel 3:5-6 Psalm 106:39 2 Kings 21:11 1 Kings 14:9 Revelation 13:15-17 2 Kings 9:22 Revelation 2:20-22 - 12 And there came a writing to him from the , saying: ‘Thus saith , the of thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa of ;
- 13 but hast walked in the way of the kings of , and hast made and the inhabitants of to go astray, like as the house of made [] to go astray; and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, who were better than thyself;
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behold, will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;
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- 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 And stirred up against Jehoram the of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;
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and they came up against , and broke 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, Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
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And after all this smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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And it came to pass, that in process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
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Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in eight years; and he departed joyless; and they buried him in the city of , but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
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