Jehoram. II Chronicles 21

 

II Chronicles 21 – Jehoram

 

Jehoram was the son that married the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and he learned to do evil from them. He eliminated all the competition by killing all his brothers and others of the royal family. This man was so wicked that God would have been justified in exterminating the line. But God is faithful to His promises. He would not destroy the line of David because He had made a covenant with David.

 

God made it very clear why judgment came upon Jehoram. This judgment was from the hand of God. He can’t have peace because he has forsaken the Lord God of his fathers.

 

God says He judges sin, and a great many of us can testify to the fact in our own lives.

 

Jehoram pushed the people back into the idolatry which his father, Jehoshaphat, had delivered them.

 

Before Elijah was translated, he wrote a message. It read, “Because you had not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat, your father, nor in the ways of Asa, King of Judah…the Lord will smite your people with a great plague… You shall have great sickness by disease of the bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of your sickness.”

 

It is a harsh message but one that God wanted delivered to Jehoram.

 

“And it came to pass, that at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness; so, he died of sore diseases.”

 

The place in which they buried him and the lack of respect at his burial show how this man was hated.

 

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