1. JORAM SON of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
2. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like his father and mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
3. Yet he clung to the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not from them.
4. Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and paid in tribute to the king of Israel [annually] 100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams, with the wool.