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Now Jehoram the king of Jerusalem, for we have said before that he
had the same name with the king of Israel, as soon as he had taken the
government upon him, betook himself to the slaughter of his brethren, and
his father's friends, who were governors under him, and thence made a beginning
and a demonstration of his wickedness; nor was he at all better than those
kings of Israel who at first transgressed against the laws of their country,
and of the Hebrews, and against God's worship. And it was Athaliah, the
daughter of Ahab, whom he had married, who taught him to be a bad man in
other respects, and also to worship foreign gods. Now God would not quite
root out this family, because of the promise he had made to David. However,
Jehoram did not leave off the introduction of new sorts of customs to the
propagation of impiety, and to the ruin of the customs of his own country.
And when the Edomites about that time had revolted from him, and slain
their former king, who was in subjection to his father, and had set up
one of their own choosing, Jehoram fell upon the land of Edom, with the
horsemen that were about him, and the chariots, by night, and destroyed
those that lay near to his own kingdom, but did not proceed further. However,
this expedition did him no service, for they all revolted from him, with
those that dwelt in the country of Libnah. He was indeed so mad as to compel
the people to go up to the high places of the mountains, and worship foreign
gods.
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