2 Chronicles 21:5

In context

3Their father had given them lavish gifts of silver and gold and other treasures, along with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. 4When Jehoram had risen to his father’s kingdom and made himself secure, he put all his brothers to the sword, and some of the officers of Israel as well. 5Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for a daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. 7Yet Yahweh was unwilling to ruin the house of David, because of the covenant he had cut with David and his promise to give him and his sons a lamp for all time.