2 Chronicles 21:4
And Jehoram rises up over the kingdom of his father, and strengthens himself, and slays all his brothers with the sword, and also of the heads of Israel.
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In Context
5Jehoram [is] a son of thirty-two years in his reigning, and he has reigned eight years in Jerusalem,
Cross References
Genesis 4:8And Cain says to his brother Abel, [[“Let us go into the field”;]] and it comes to pass in their being in the field, that Cain rises up against his brother Abel, and slays him.
Judges 9:56and God turns back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brothers;
2 Chronicles 21:13and you walk in the way of the kings of Israel, and cause Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also your brothers, the house of your father, who are better than yourself, you have slain;
2 Chronicles 22:8And it comes to pass, in Jehu’s executing judgment with the house of Ahab, that he finds the heads of Judah and sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministers of Ahaziah, and slays them.
2 Chronicles 25:3And it comes to pass, when the kingdom has been strong on him, that he slays his servants, those striking his father the king,
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 →