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II Chronicles Chapter 21

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II Chronicles

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In this chapter the Ammonites capture and kill the king of Israel Jehu, leading to a period of national humiliation and oppression. The people are left without a ruler and are forced to live under the rule of the Ammonites, highlighting the consequences of disobedience and the loss of divine protection.

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(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.
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I Kings 22:50II Chronicles 21:20II Chronicles 9:31II Chronicles 12:16II Kings 8:16II Kings 8:17

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I Kings 22:50I Kings 15:24II Kings 1:17I Kings 11:43I Kings 14:20I Kings 14:31

(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.
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II Chronicles 21:4II Chronicles 12:6II Chronicles 23:2II Chronicles 24:5II Chronicles 24:16II Chronicles 28:19II Chronicles 28:23II Chronicles 28:27II Chronicles 33:18II Chronicles 35:18

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I Kings 22:4I Kings 22:8I Kings 22:32I Kings 22:49II Kings 3:12II Kings 8:16

(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 he was the firstborn.
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II Chronicles 11:23Genesis 25:6Deuteronomy 21:15Deuteronomy 21:16Deuteronomy 21:17

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Exodus 11:5Exodus 12:29Exodus 13:15Numbers 3:13Exodus 38:17II Kings 20:13

(4) Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
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II Chronicles 21:17II Chronicles 22:8II Chronicles 22:10Genesis 4:8Judges 9:5Judges 9:56Judges 9:57I John 3:12

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Judges 7:25Jeremiah 52:10Psalms 68:27Judges 5:30

(5) Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
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II Kings 8:17II Kings 22:1II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 21:20II Chronicles 34:1II Samuel 5:4

(6) And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
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I Kings 16:25I Kings 16:26I Kings 16:27I Kings 16:28I Kings 16:29I Kings 16:30I Kings 16:31I Kings 16:32I Kings 16:33II Chronicles 18:1II Chronicles 22:2II Kings 8:18

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II Kings 8:27II Kings 8:18Luke 12:53I Kings 16:29I Kings 16:33I Kings 18:16

(7) Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
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II Chronicles 22:11Isaiah 7:6Isaiah 7:7II Samuel 23:5Psalms 89:28Psalms 89:29Psalms 89:30Psalms 89:31Psalms 89:32Psalms 89:33Psalms 89:34Psalms 89:39

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Isaiah 30:26II Kings 8:19Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36John 12:36Leviticus 26:42

(8) In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
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Genesis 27:40II Kings 8:20II Kings 8:21II Kings 8:22I Kings 22:47II Kings 3:9

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Daniel 7:14Daniel 11:5

(9) Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
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II Kings 8:21I Kings 10:26I Chronicles 28:1Exodus 14:7II Kings 6:14I Kings 9:22

(10) So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
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Joshua 21:13II Kings 19:8II Chronicles 13:10II Chronicles 15:2Deuteronomy 32:21I Kings 11:31I Kings 11:33Jeremiah 2:13

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II Kings 8:22

(11) Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
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Deuteronomy 12:2Deuteronomy 12:3Deuteronomy 12:4I Kings 11:7Psalms 78:58Ezekiel 20:28I Kings 14:9I Kings 14:16II Kings 21:11Habakkuk 2:15Revelation 2:20II Chronicles 21:13

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Joshua 11:21Ezekiel 6:3Hosea 4:13

(12) And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
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II Kings 2:1Jeremiah 36:2Jeremiah 36:23Jeremiah 36:28Jeremiah 36:29Jeremiah 36:30Jeremiah 36:31Jeremiah 36:32Ezekiel 2:9Ezekiel 2:10Daniel 5:5Daniel 5:25

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Ezekiel 16:47I Kings 22:43II Chronicles 17:3Proverbs 3:17Isaiah 55:8Isaiah 55:9

(13) But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
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I Kings 16:25I Kings 16:30I Kings 16:31I Kings 16:32I Kings 16:33II Chronicles 21:11Exodus 34:15Deuteronomy 31:16II Kings 9:22Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 3:9II Chronicles 21:4

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II Kings 8:27Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Lamentations 4:9Ezekiel 32:25

(14) Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
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Leviticus 26:21Hosea 5:11Micah 6:16Exodus 20:5

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Leviticus 13:3Leviticus 13:51Leviticus 13:55

(15) And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
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II Chronicles 21:18II Chronicles 21:19Numbers 5:27Deuteronomy 28:61Acts 12:23Psalms 109:18Acts 1:18Deuteronomy 28:27Deuteronomy 28:37Deuteronomy 28:59Deuteronomy 28:67

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II Chronicles 21:19Jeremiah 4:19II Chronicles 21:18Matthew 4:23Matthew 9:35Matthew 10:1

(16) Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
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II Chronicles 33:11I Samuel 26:19II Samuel 24:1I Kings 11:11I Kings 11:14I Kings 11:23Ezra 1:1Ezra 1:5Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 45:5Isaiah 45:6

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I Samuel 7:10I Samuel 7:7I Samuel 28:19II Samuel 21:15

(17) And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
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Job 5:3Job 5:4II Chronicles 22:1II Chronicles 24:7II Chronicles 22:6

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II Kings 24:15Esther 8:8II Chronicles 24:11Esther 3:3Esther 3:12Jeremiah 41:10

(18) And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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II Chronicles 21:15II Kings 9:29Acts 12:23

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II Chronicles 21:15

(19) And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
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II Chronicles 16:14Jeremiah 34:5

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II Samuel 2:23II Chronicles 21:15Exodus 2:23Revelation 8:10Exodus 21:25Leviticus 6:9

(20) Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
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II Chronicles 23:21Proverbs 10:7Jeremiah 22:18Jeremiah 22:28

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II Kings 8:17II Kings 22:1II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 21:5II Chronicles 34:1II Samuel 5:4

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