2 Kings 8:16-24 - Joram Reigns In Judah

¹⁶ In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king. ¹⁷ He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years. ¹⁸ He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord. ¹⁹ But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on Judah, because of David his servant, to whom he had given his word that he would have a light for ever.

²⁰ In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves. ²¹ Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents. ²² So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah to this day. And at the same time, Libnah made itself free.

²³ Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ²⁴ And Joram went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David: and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.