2 Chronicles 21:5

A son of thirty and two years [is] Jehoram in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

Young's Literal Translation

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

4And Jehoram riseth up over the kingdom of his father, and strengtheneth himself, and slayeth all his brethren with the sword, and also — of the heads of Israel.

6and he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab hath been to him for a wife, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,

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Cross References

2 Kings 8:17a son of thirty and two years was he in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned 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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