2 Chronicles 21:5

Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

In Context

4So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had established himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some of the princes of Israel.

6And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

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Cross References

2 Kings 8:17He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 21:2-12

Jehoram's Wicked Reign. ( b. c. 889.) 1 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. 2 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. 3 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… Read the whole commentary →

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