2 Chronicles 21:4
Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5Thirty and two years was Jehoram old when he became king, and eight years did he reign in Jerusalem.
Cross References
Genesis 4:8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Judges 9:56Thus did God compensate the evil of Abimelech, which he had done unto his father, in slaying his seventy brothers:
2 Chronicles 21:13But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, as the house of Achab hath caused [others] to go astray, and hast also slain thy brothers of thy father's house, who were better than thyself:
2 Chronicles 22:8And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Achab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brothers of Achazyahu, that ministered to Achazyahu, and he slew them.
2 Chronicles 25:3And it came to pass, when the kingdom was firmly established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
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 →