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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 8:16 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 2Ki 8:16 |
Strong Concordance |
And in the fifth [02568] year [08141] of Joram [03141] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] king [04428] of Israel [03478], Jehoshaphat [03092] being then king [04428] of Judah [03063], Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063] began to reign [04427]. |
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King James |
And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
JEHORAM'S WICKED REIGN. (Kg2 8:16-23)
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat . . . began to reign--(See on Kg2 3:1). His father resigned the throne to him two years before his death. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The passage is parenthetic, resuming the history of the kingdom of Judah from Kg1 22:50.
Kg2 8:16
The opening words are - "In the fifth year of Joram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, and of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah;" but they contradict all the other chronological notices of Jehoshaphat Kg1 22:42, Kg1 22:51; Kg2 3:1; Ch2 20:31, which give him a reign of at least twenty-three years. Hence, some have supposed that the words "Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah," are accidentally repeated. Those, however, who regard them and Kg2 1:17 as sound, suppose that Jehoshaphat gave his son the royal title in his 16th year, while he advanced him to a real association in the empire seven years later, in his 23rd year. Two years afterward, Jehoshatphat died, and Jehoram became sole king.
Kg2 8:17
The "eight years" are counted from his association in the kingdom. They terminate in the twelfth year of Johoram of Israel.
Kg2 8:18
Jehoshaphat's alliance, political and social, with Ahab and Ahab's family had not been allowed to affect the purity of his faith. Jehoram his son, influenced by his wife, Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, "walked in the way of the kings of Israel;" he allowed, i. e., the introduction of the Baal-worship into Judaea.
Among the worst of Jehoram's evil doings must be reckoned the cruel murder of his six brothers Ch2 21:4, whom he killed to obtain their wealth.
Kg2 8:19
The natural consequence of Jehoram's apostasy would have been the destruction of his house, and the transfer of the throne of Judah to another family. Compare the punishments of Jeroboam Kg1 14:10, Baasha Kg1 16:2-4, and Ahab Kg1 21:20-22. But the promises to David (marginal references) prevented this removal of the dynasty; and so Jehoram was punished in other ways Kg2 8:22; Ch2 21:12-19. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
Jehoram
Called Joram, (Kg2 8:21); (Kg2 8:23); (Kg2 8:24).
began
Hebrew, reigned, that is, began to reign in consort with his father. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Reign of Joram of Judah (cf. 2 Chron 21:2-20). - Joram became king in the fifth year of Joram of Israel, while Jehoshaphat his father was (still) king, the latter handing over the government to him two years before his death (see at Kg2 1:17), and reigned eight years, namely, two years to the death of Jehoshaphat and six years afterwards.
(Note: The words יהוּדה מלך ויהושׁפט have been improperly omitted by the Arabic and Syriac, and by Luther, Dathe, and De Wette from their translations; whilst Schulz, Maurer, Thenius, and others pronounce it a gloss. The genuineness of the words is attested by the lxx (the Edit. Complut. being alone in omitting them) and by the Chaldee: and the rejection of them is just as arbitrary as the interpolation of מת, which is proposed by Kimchi and Ewald ("when Jehoshaphat was dead"). Compare J. Meyer, annotatt. ad Seder Olam, p. 916f.)
The Chethb שׁנה שׁמנה is not to be altered, since the rule that the numbers two to ten take the noun in the plural is not without exception (cf. Ewald, 287, i.). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Jehoram - Jehoram was first made king or vice - roy, by his father divers years before this time, at his expedition to Ramoth - Gilead, which dominion of his, ended at his father's return. But now Jehoshaphat, being not far from his death, and having divers sons and fearing some competition among them, makes Jehoram king the second time, as David did Solomon upon the like occasion. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| In the fifth year of Joram - This verse, as it stands in the present Hebrew text, may be thus read: "And in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, [and of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah], reigned Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah." The three Hebrew words, ויהושפט מלך יהודה, and of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, greatly disturb the chronology in this place. It is certain that Jehoshaphat reigned twenty-five years, and that Jehoram his son reigned but eight; Kg1 22:42; Kg2 8:17; Ch2 20:31; Ch2 21:5. So that he could not have reigned during his father's life without being king twenty years, and eight years! These words are wanting in three of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. in the Complutensian and Aldine editions of the Septuagint, in the Peshito Syriac, in the Parisian Heptapler Syriac, the Arabic, and in many copies of the Vulgate, collated by Dr. Kennicott and De Rossi, both printed and manuscript; to which may be added two MSS. in my own library, one of the fourteenth, the other of the eleventh century, and in what I judge to be the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate. And it is worthy of remark that in this latter work, after the fifteenth verse, ending with Quo mortuo regnavit Azahel pro eo, the following words are in a smaller character, Anno quinto Joram filii Achab regis Israhel, regnavit Joram filius Josaphat rex Juda. Triginta, etc. We have already seen that it is supposed that Jehoshaphat associated his son with him in the kingdom; and that the fifth year in this place only regards Joram king of Israel, and not Jehoshaphat king of Judah. See the notes on Kg2 1:17. |
1 Now Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the eighteenth [08083] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] twelve [08147] [06240] years [08141].
16 And in the fifth [02568] year [08141] of Joram [03141] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] king [04428] of Israel [03478], Jehoshaphat [03092] being then king [04428] of Judah [03063], Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063] began to reign [04427].
17 Thirty [07970] and two [08147] years [08141] old [01121] was he when he began to reign [04427]; and he reigned [04427] eight [08083] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389].
18 And he walked [03212] in the way [01870] of the kings [04428] of Israel [03478], as did [06213] the house [01004] of Ahab [0256]: for the daughter [01323] of Ahab [0256] was his wife [0802]: and he did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068].
19 Yet the LORD [03068] would [014] not destroy [07843] Judah [03063] for David [01732] his servant's [05650] sake, as he promised [0559] him to give [05414] him alway [03117] a light [05216], and to his children [01121].
20 In his days [03117] Edom [0123] revolted [06586] from under the hand [03027] of Judah [03063], and made [04427] a king [04428] over themselves.
21 So Joram [03141] went over [05674] to Zair [06811], and all the chariots [07393] with him: and he rose [06965] by night [03915], and smote [05221] the Edomites [0123] which compassed him about [05437], and the captains [08269] of the chariots [07393]: and the people [05971] fled [05127] into their tents [0168].
22 Yet Edom [0123] revolted [06586] from under the hand [03027] of Judah [03063] unto this day [03117]. Then Libnah [03841] revolted [06586] at the same [01931] time [06256].
23 And the rest [03499] of the acts [01697] of Joram [03141], and all that he did [06213], are they not written [03789] in the book [05612] of the chronicles [01697] [03117] of the kings [04428] of Judah [03063]?
12 And there came [0935] a writing [04385] to him from Elijah [0452] the prophet [05030], saying [0559], Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of David [01732] thy father [01], Because thou hast not walked [01980] in the ways [01870] of Jehoshaphat [03092] thy father [01], nor in the ways [01870] of Asa [0609] king [04428] of Judah [03063],
13 But hast walked [03212] in the way [01870] of the kings [04428] of Israel [03478], and hast made Judah [03063] and the inhabitants [03427] of Jerusalem [03389] to go a whoring [02181], like to the whoredoms [02181] of the house [01004] of Ahab [0256], and also hast slain [02026] thy brethren [0251] of thy father's [01] house [01004], which were better [02896] than thyself:
14 Behold, with a great [01419] plague [04046] will the LORD [03068] smite [05062] thy people [05971], and thy children [01121], and thy wives [0802], and all thy goods [07399]:
15 And thou shalt have great [07227] sickness [02483] by disease [04245] of thy bowels [04578], until thy bowels [04578] fall out [03318] by reason of the sickness [02483] day [03117] by day [03117].
16 Moreover the LORD [03068] stirred up [05782] against Jehoram [03088] the spirit [07307] of the Philistines [06430], and of the Arabians [06163], that were near [05921] [03027] the Ethiopians [03569]:
17 And they came up [05927] into Judah [03063], and brake [01234] into it, and carried away [07617] all the substance [07399] that was found [04672] in the king's [04428] house [01004], and his sons [01121] also, and his wives [0802]; so that there was never a son [01121] left [07604] him, save Jehoahaz [03059], the youngest [06996] of his sons [01121].
18 And after [0310] all this the LORD [03068] smote [05062] him in his bowels [04578] with an incurable [0369] [04832] disease [02483].
19 And it came to pass, that in process of time [03117], after [03318] [06256] the end [07093] of two [08147] years [03117], his bowels [04578] fell out [03318] by reason [05973] of his sickness [02483]: so he died [04191] of sore [07451] diseases [08463]. And his people [05971] made [06213] no burning [08316] for him, like the burning [08316] of his fathers [01].
22 Yet Edom [0123] revolted [06586] from under the hand [03027] of Judah [03063] unto this day [03117]. Then Libnah [03841] revolted [06586] at the same [01931] time [06256].
20 And Ahab [0256] said [0559] to Elijah [0452], Hast thou found [04672] me, O mine enemy [0341]? And he answered [0559], I have found [04672] thee: because thou hast sold [04376] thyself to work [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068].
21 Behold, I will bring [0935] evil [07451] upon thee, and will take away [01197] thy posterity [0310], and will cut off [03772] from Ahab [0256] him that pisseth [08366] against the wall [07023], and him that is shut up [06113] and left [05800] in Israel [03478],
22 And will make [05414] thine house [01004] like the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028], and like the house [01004] of Baasha [01201] the son [01121] of Ahijah [0281], for the provocation [03708] wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger [03707], and made Israel [03478] to sin [02398].
2 Forasmuch as I exalted [07311] thee out of the dust [06083], and made [05414] thee prince [05057] over my people [05971] Israel [03478]; and thou hast walked [03212] in the way [01870] of Jeroboam [03379], and hast made my people [05971] Israel [03478] to sin [02398], to provoke me to anger [03707] with their sins [02403];
3 Behold, I will take away [01197] the posterity [0310] of Baasha [01201], and the posterity [0310] of his house [01004]; and will make [05414] thy house [01004] like the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028].
4 Him that dieth [04191] of Baasha [01201] in the city [05892] shall the dogs [03611] eat [0398]; and him that dieth [04191] of his in the fields [07704] shall the fowls [05775] of the air [08064] eat [0398].
10 Therefore, behold, I will bring [0935] evil [07451] upon the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], and will cut off [03772] from Jeroboam [03379] him that pisseth [08366] against the wall [07023], and him that is shut up [06113] and left [05800] in Israel [03478], and will take away [01197] the remnant [0310] of the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], as a man taketh away [01197] dung [01557], till it be all gone [08552].
19 Yet the LORD [03068] would [014] not destroy [07843] Judah [03063] for David [01732] his servant's [05650] sake, as he promised [0559] him to give [05414] him alway [03117] a light [05216], and to his children [01121].
4 Now when Jehoram [03088] was risen up [06965] to the kingdom [04467] of his father [01], he strengthened [02388] himself, and slew [02026] all his brethren [0251] with the sword [02719], and divers also of the princes [08269] of Israel [03478].
18 And he walked [03212] in the way [01870] of the kings [04428] of Israel [03478], as did [06213] the house [01004] of Ahab [0256]: for the daughter [01323] of Ahab [0256] was his wife [0802]: and he did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068].
17 Thirty [07970] and two [08147] years [08141] old [01121] was he when he began to reign [04427]; and he reigned [04427] eight [08083] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389].
17 So he died [04191] according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] which Elijah [0452] had spoken [01696]. And Jehoram [03088] reigned [04427] in his stead in the second [08147] year [08141] of Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063]; because he had no son [01121].
31 And Jehoshaphat [03092] reigned [04427] over Judah [03063]: he was thirty [07970] and five [02568] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] twenty [06242] and five [02568] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Azubah [05806] the daughter [01323] of Shilhi [07977].
1 Now Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the eighteenth [08083] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] twelve [08147] [06240] years [08141].
51 Ahaziah [0274] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478] in Samaria [08111] the seventeenth [07651] [06240] year [08141] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and reigned [04427] two years [08141] over Israel [03478].
42 Jehoshaphat [03092] was thirty [07970] and five [02568] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427]; and he reigned [04427] twenty [06242] and five [02568] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Azubah [05806] the daughter [01323] of Shilhi [07977].
16 And in the fifth [02568] year [08141] of Joram [03141] the son [01121] of Ahab [0256] king [04428] of Israel [03478], Jehoshaphat [03092] being then king [04428] of Judah [03063], Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063] began to reign [04427].
50 And Jehoshaphat [03092] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] with his fathers [01] in the city [05892] of David [01732] his father [01]: and Jehoram [03088] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.
24 And Joram [03141] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] with his fathers [01] in the city [05892] of David [01732]: and Ahaziah [0274] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.
23 And the rest [03499] of the acts [01697] of Joram [03141], and all that he did [06213], are they not written [03789] in the book [05612] of the chronicles [01697] [03117] of the kings [04428] of Judah [03063]?
21 So Joram [03141] went over [05674] to Zair [06811], and all the chariots [07393] with him: and he rose [06965] by night [03915], and smote [05221] the Edomites [0123] which compassed him about [05437], and the captains [08269] of the chariots [07393]: and the people [05971] fled [05127] into their tents [0168].
17 So he died [04191] according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] which Elijah [0452] had spoken [01696]. And Jehoram [03088] reigned [04427] in his stead in the second [08147] year [08141] of Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063]; because he had no son [01121].
17 So he died [04191] according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] which Elijah [0452] had spoken [01696]. And Jehoram [03088] reigned [04427] in his stead in the second [08147] year [08141] of Jehoram [03088] the son [01121] of Jehoshaphat [03092] king [04428] of Judah [03063]; because he had no son [01121].
5 Jehoram [03088] was thirty [07970] and two [08147] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] eight [08083] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389].
31 And Jehoshaphat [03092] reigned [04427] over Judah [03063]: he was thirty [07970] and five [02568] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] twenty [06242] and five [02568] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Azubah [05806] the daughter [01323] of Shilhi [07977].
17 Thirty [07970] and two [08147] years [08141] old [01121] was he when he began to reign [04427]; and he reigned [04427] eight [08083] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389].
42 Jehoshaphat [03092] was thirty [07970] and five [02568] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427]; and he reigned [04427] twenty [06242] and five [02568] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Azubah [05806] the daughter [01323] of Shilhi [07977].