Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 992

21—g HISTORY OF HOUSE OF DAVID.——lI. CHRONL 22-8 g a. King over themselves. jhomm therefore advanced along with his Generals and all his chariots; but hc IO II I2 was risen upon in the night and was defeated by Edom, who surrounded himself, and the Commanders of his clmriots. Thus Edom revolted from under the hand of jndea to this day. Libnah also at the same time re- volted from under his hand, because he had abandoned the Evezz-Lxvmc GOD of his fathers. §I3¤rmz:'¤ miclazhxzzss. He also erected Mounds in the

Cities of judah, and caused the popu- lation of jerusalem to whore, and forced judea. to do it. So a letter came to him from Elisha} the Preacher, to say; ‘ 'I`hus says the EvER~L1v1NG, the

GOD of David your ancestor, since you have not foliowed the course of your father jhosaphat and the path of Asa, King of judea, but have walked in the ways of the Kings of Israel, and have prostituted judea and the inhabitants of jerusalem, as the House of Ahab prostituted ; and also have murdered your brothers of your father’s family, who were better

14 than yourself; he sure the EVER- LIVING will strike with a great disease your children, and your wives, and

15 property, and all your people; and yourself with many diseases in your bowels; until your bowels will come out day by day in consequence of your disease l ’ (887 ac.) 16 The EVER—L1v1NG consequently 18 aroused the spirit of the Philishtim against jhoram, with the Arabiaus, who were at the side of the Kushim, and they came up to judea and broke into it, and captured all the property they found belonging to the family of the King, and also his children and wives, and did not leave him a child except jhoakhaz, his youngest son. And after all that the EVER- L1v1NG struck him within his bowels with ant incurable disease, which recurred from day to day, and as

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; but that is clearly the error of some old transcriber, for Elisha, not Elijah, the prophet was the contemporary of jhoram. I coiiseqiiently correct this ancient slip of the peii.-l’. F. time went on, at the end of a period of two years, his bowels came out in consequence of his disease, and he died in grievous sufferings. Conse- quently his people did not make burnings for him, like the burnings for his fathers. flllysrnctzr uf §l;¤rsm. At his coronation he was thirty-two zo years of age, and he reigned in jeru- salem eight years ;—~—and he departed unregretted. So they buried him in the City of David, but not in the Tombs of the Kings. (885 nc.) 3l;n;isl3 ®l2ri2h §ing. Then the Population of jerusalem 22 i elected Ahaziah his youngest son in his place, for all the elder ones had been murdered by the troops who came with the Army of the Arabians. So Ahaziah,·ben—]horam reigned in judea. (885 ac.) $I;n;iul;'s Wirkch Qlzign. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old 2 at his coronation, and reigned one year in jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Amri. He also followed the courses of the House of Ahab, for his mother was his wicked adviser. He conse- quently did evil in the eyes of the 1i`.VER—L1v1NG, like the House of Ahab, for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, and destroyed him. So he followed their advice, and

went with jhoram,—ben·Ahab, King of Israel, to fight against the King of Aram at Ramoth~Gilad, where the Aramites wounded jhoram, who re- turned to jezreel to be cured of thc wounds which he had received at Ramoth in his fight with Hazahel, King of Aram. So Azariahpben- jhoram, King of judea, descended to see jhoram,-ben-Akhab in jezreel, where he was an invalid. But the 7 degradation of Ahaziah came from GOD by his going to jhoram, for on his visit he went out with jhoram against jehu,-ben-Nimshi, whom the EV1zR—L1v1NG had consecrated to cut off the House of Ahab. For it hap- 8 pened that when jehu was executing the family of Ahab, he found the Nobles of judea, and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah attending to Ahaziah, and he murdered them. 992