2 Tawarikh 21

2 Tawarikh 21

21:1 Kemudian Yosafat mendapat perhentian bersama-sama dengan nenek moyangnya, dan ia dikuburkan di samping nenek moyangnya di kota Daud. Maka Yoram, anaknya, menjadi raja menggantikan dia. Raja Yoram 21:2 Saudara-saudaranya, anak-anak Yosafat, ialah: Azarya, Yehiel, Zakharia, Azariahu, Mikhael dan Sefaca. Mereka semua anak-anak Yosafat, raja Israel. 21:3 Ayahnya memberikan kepada mereka banyak pemberian, berupa emas dan perak dan barang-barang berharga, juga kota-kota berkubu di Yehuda. Tetapi kedudukan raja diberikannya kepada Yoram, karena dialah anak sulungnya. 21:4 Sesudah Yoram memegang pemerintahan atas kerajaan ayahnya dan merasa dirinya kuat, ia membunuh dengan pedang semua saudaranya dan juga beberapa pembesar Israel. 21:5 Yoram berumur tiga puluh dua tahun pada waktu ia menjadi raja dan delapan tahun lamanya ia memerintah di Yerusalem. 21:6 Ia hidup menurut kelakuan raja-raja Israel seperti yang dilakukan keluarga Ahab, sebab yang menjadi isterinya adalah anak Ahab. Ia melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN. 21:7 Namun demikian, TUHAN tidak mau memusnahkan keluarga Daud oleh karena perjanjian yang diikat-Nya dengan Daud, sesuai dengan yang dijanjikan-Nya, bahwa Ia hendak memberikan keturunan kepadanya dan kepada anak-anaknya untuk selama-lamanya. 21:8 Pada zamannya memberontaklah Edom terhadap kekuasaan Yehuda dan mereka mengangkat seorang raja atas mereka sendiri. 21:9 Maka majulah Yoram dengan panglima-panglimanya serta seluruh keretanya; pada waktu malam bangunlah ia, lalu bersama-sama dengan para panglima pasukan kereta ia menerobos barisan orang Edom yang mengepung dia. 21:10 Demikianlah Edom memberontak kekuasaan Yehuda dan terlepas sampai sekarang ini. Lalu Libnapun memberontak terhadap kekuasaannya pada masa itu juga. Itu disebabkan karena ia telah meninggalkan TUHAN, Allah nenek moyangnya. 21:11 Lagipula ia membuat bukit-bukit pengorbanan di gunung-gunung Yehuda. Ia membujuk penduduk Yerusalem untuk berzinah dan ia menyesatkan Yehuda. 21:12 Lalu sampailah kepadanya sebuah surat dari nabi Elia yang bunyinya: "Beginilah firman TUHAN, Allah Daud, bapa leluhurmu: Karena engkau tidak hidup mengikuti jejak Yosafat, ayahmu, dan Asa, raja Yehuda, 21:13 melainkan hidup menurut kelakuan raja-raja Israel dan membujuk Yehuda dan penduduk-penduduk Yerusalem untuk berzinah, sama seperti yang dilakukan keluarga Ahab, dan juga karena engkau telah membunuh saudara-saudaramu, seluruh keluarga ayahmu yang lebih baik dari padamu, 21:14 maka TUHAN akan mendatangkan tulah besar atas rakyatmu, anak-anakmu, isteri-isterimu, dan atas semua harta milikmu. 21:15 Dan engkau sendiri akan menderita penyakit yang dahsyat, suatu penyakit usus, hingga selang beberapa waktu ususmu keluar oleh karena penyakit itu." 21:16 Lalu TUHAN menggerakkan hati orang Filistin dan orang Arab yang tinggal berdekatan dengan orang Etiopia untuk melawan Yoram. 21:17 Maka mereka maju melawan Yehuda, memasukinya dan mengangkut segala harta milik yang terdapat di dalam istana raja sebagai jarahan, juga anak-anak dan isteri-isterinya, sehingga tidak ada seorang anak yang tinggal padanya kecuali Yoahas, anaknya yang bungsu. 21:18 Sesudah semuanya ini TUHAN menulahinya dengan penyakit usus yang tidak dapat sembuh. 21:19 Beberapa waktu berselang, kira-kira sesudah lewat dua tahun, keluarlah ususnya karena penyakitnya itu, lalu ia mati dengan penderitaan yang hebat. Rakyatnya tidak menyalakan api baginya seperti yang diperbuat mereka bagi nenek moyangnya. 21:20 Ia berumur tiga puluh dua tahun pada waktu ia menjadi raja dan delapan tahun lamanya ia memerintah di Yerusalem. Ia meninggal dengan tidak dicintai orang. Ia dikuburkan di kota Daud, tetapi tidak di dalam pekuburan raja-raja.

21:1 And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
21:2 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azaryahu, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
21:3 Their father gave them great gifts of silver and gold and precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he [was] the firstborn.
21:4 Now when Jehoram was established over the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself and killed all his brothers with the sword, and also [others] of the princes of Israel.
21:5 Jehoram [was] thirtytwo years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had the daughter of Ahab as a wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
21:7 Yet the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted against Judah's authority, and made a king over themselves.
21:9 So Jehoram went out with his officers, and all his chariots with him. And he rose by night and attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots.
21:10 Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah's authority to this day. At that time Libnah revolted against his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit harlotry, and led Judah astray.
21:12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says the LORD God of your father David: Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
21:13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot like the harlotry of the house of Ahab, and also have killed your brothers, those of your father's household, [who were] better than yourself,
21:14 behold, the LORD will strike your people with a serious afflictionyour children, your wives, and all your possessions;
21:15 and you [will become] very sick with a disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabians who [were] near the Ethiopians.
21:17 And they came up into Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that there was not a son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
21:18 After all this the LORD struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
21:19 Then it happened in the course of time, after the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness; so he died in severe pain. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning for his fathers.
21:20 He was thirtytwo years old when he became king. He reigned in Jerusalem eight years and, to no one's sorrow, departed. However they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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