Jehoram

• Reign of Jehoramc. 893 BC
• Death of Jehoramc. 885 BC

Jehoram

Father

Jehoshaphat

Spouse

Athaliah

Siblings

Azariah· Azariahu· Jehiel· Michael· Shephatiah· Zechariah

Children

Ahaziah· Jehosheba

• Ἰωράμ·Jorammeans “to cast; elevated”
• יְהוֹרָם·Jehoram
• יוֹרָם·Jorammeans “to cast; elevated”

Includes 16 verses that refer to Jehoram without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 1 Kings 22:50יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
   And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.
2. 2 Kings 1:17יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
   So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah.
3. 2 Kings 8:16יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
   In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
4. 2 Kings 8:17Referred to, not named
   Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
5. 2 Kings 8:18Referred to, not named
   And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
6. 2 Kings 8:20Referred to, not named
   In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.
7. 2 Kings 8:21יוֹרָם · Joram
   So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.
8. 2 Kings 8:23יוֹרָם · Joram
   As for the rest of the acts of Jehoram, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
9. 2 Kings 8:24יוֹרָם · Joram
   And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
10. 2 Kings 8:25יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
11. 2 Kings 8:29יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
12. 2 Kings 11:2יוֹרָם · Joram
    But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.
13. 2 Kings 12:18יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
14. 1 Chronicles 3:11יוֹרָם · Joram
    Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
15. 2 Chronicles 21:1יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.
16. 2 Chronicles 21:2Referred to, not named
    Jehoram’s brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; these were all sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
17. 2 Chronicles 21:3יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
18. 2 Chronicles 21:4יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.
19. 2 Chronicles 21:5יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
20. 2 Chronicles 21:6Referred to, not named
    And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
21. 2 Chronicles 21:8Referred to, not named
    In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.
22. 2 Chronicles 21:9יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.
23. 2 Chronicles 21:10Referred to, not named
    So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled against his hand at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.
24. 2 Chronicles 21:11Referred to, not named
    Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
25. 2 Chronicles 21:12Referred to, not named
    Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,
26. 2 Chronicles 21:13Referred to, not named
    …but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
27. 2 Chronicles 21:14Referred to, not named
    So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
28. 2 Chronicles 21:15Referred to, not named
    And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
29. 2 Chronicles 21:16יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
30. 2 Chronicles 21:17Referred to, not named
    So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.
31. 2 Chronicles 21:18Referred to, not named
    After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
32. 2 Chronicles 21:19Referred to, not named
    This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.
33. 2 Chronicles 21:20Referred to, not named
    Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
34. 2 Chronicles 22:1יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
35. 2 Chronicles 22:6יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    So he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
36. 2 Chronicles 22:11יְהוֹרָם · Jehoram
    But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.
37. Matthew 1:8Ἰωράμ · Joram
    Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.