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16 In the fifth year of the reign of Ahab’s son Yoram as king of Yisrael, Yehoshafat’s son Yehoram became king of Yehudah. 17 He was thirty-two when he became king and he reigned from Yerushalem for eight years. 18 He followed in the evil ways of the kings of the northern kingdom of Yisrael, just as Ahab’s descendants had done, because he’d married one of Ahab’s daughters. He did what Yahweh had said was evil, 19 but Yahweh wasn’t willing to destroy Yehudah, for the sake of his servant David—he’d promised David that his descendants would always rule Yehudah.
20 It was during King Yehoram’s time that Edom rebelled from Yehudah’s control, and they appointed their own king. 21 So Yehoram took his army and chariots and crossed the valley towards Zair in Edom. They attacked at night, but as the Edomite army and chariots started to surround them, they had to retreat back to their tents. 22 So Edom has been out from under the control of Yehudah to this day. Then Livnah revolted at the same time.
23 Everything else that Yehoram said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 24 Then Yehoram died and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and his son Ahazyah replaced him as king.
8:17 OSHB variant note: שנה: (x-qere) ’שָׁנִ֔ים’: lemma_8141 n_0.1 morph_HNcfpa id_12jxp שָׁנִ֔ים
2 Kings 8:16-24; 2 Chronicles 21:1-11
Throughout history–from ancient times to modern–the death of a powerful leader has often initiated a cascade of political changes within the leader’s former sphere of influence, and the death of King Jehoshaphat of Judah was no different. The nation of Edom had been subjugated by King David of Israel (2 Samuel 8:13-14), and after the northern tribes of Israel broke away from the rule of David’s descendants in 930 B.C., Edom remained under the rule of Judah. By the end of the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah, however, the political landscape had changed significantly. Edom’s neighbor Moab had already declared independence from Israel after the death of King Ahab just a few years earlier in 853 B.C. (2 Kings 1:1; 3:5), and they had even survived an attempt by King Jehoram of Israel to bring them back under his rule (2 Kings 3; see map). Their success may have emboldened Edom to seize upon a new window of opportunity to reestablish their own sovereignty when King Jehoshaphat died in 848 B.C. Edom, too, would survive an attempt by another King Jehoram–King Jehoram (or sometimes Joram) of Judah–to bring them back under his rule, and this apparently led the Levitical city of Libnah to revolt from Judah as well. After Edom declared their independence, Jehoram set out with his chariots and his army to attack Edom at Zair (probably the same as Zoar), but the Edomites and their chariot commanders surrounded his forces, and Jehoram’s army fled home.
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