1. Now Jehoram the 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 that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
3. Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.
4. Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
5. But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.