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2 Kings 8:20-26 English Standard Version (ESV)

20. In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.

21. Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army fled home.

22. So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

23. Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

24. So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

25. In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.

26. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.