2 Crónicas 21

1Josafat se durmió con sus padres, y fue sepultado con sus padres en la ciudad de David. En su lugar reinó su hijo Joram,

2cuyos hermanos, hijos de Josafat, eran Azarías, Jehiel, Zacarías, Azarías, Micael y Safatías. Todos estos eran hijos de Josafat, rey de Israel.

3Su padre les había dado grandes donaciones de plata y de oro y de objetos preciosos, con ciudades fuertes en Judá; entregando, empero, el reino a Joram, porque era el primogénito.

4Subió, pues, Joram al trono de su padre; mas cuando se hubo consolidado, pasó a cuchillo a todos sus hermanos y a algunos de los príncipes de Israel.

5Treinta y dos años tenía Joram cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó ocho años en Jerusalén.

6Anduvo por el camino de los reyes de Israel, según hacía la casa de Acab; pues tenía por mujer a una hija de Acab, e hizo lo que era malo a los ojos de Yahvé.

7Mas Yahvé no quiso destruir la casa de David, a causa de la alianza que había hecho con David, y por haberle prometido que le daría siempre una lámpara, a él y a sus hijos.

8En sus días se rebeló Edom contra el cetro de Judá, y se dio un rey.

9Entonces se puso en marcha Joram con sus jefes, y con él todos sus carros. Y levantándose de noche derrotó a los idumeos que le tenían cercado a él y a los capitanes de sus carros.

10Con todo, Edom logró independizarse de Judá hasta hoy día. Entonces, a ese mismo tiempo Lobná se rebeló contra su dominio, porque había abandonado a Yahvé, el Dios de sus padres.

11Construyó asimismo lugares altos en las montañas de Judá, hizo idolatrar a los habitantes de Jerusalén e indujo al pecado a Judá.

12Entonces le llegó una carta del profeta Elías, que decía: “Así dice Yahvé, el Dios de tu padre David. Por cuanto no has seguido los caminos de tu padre Josafat, ni los caminos de Asá, rey de Judá,

13sino que has andado por el camino de los reyes de Israel, y has hecho idolatrar a Judá, y a los habitantes de Jerusalén, como lo hace la casa de Acab, y porque has dado muerte a tus hermanos, la casa de tu padre, que eran mejores que tú;

14he aquí que Yahvé castigará con terrible azote a tu pueblo, tus hijos, tus mujeres y toda tu hacienda;

15y a ti te (castigará) con graves enfermedades y con una dolencia de entrañas, hasta que tus entrañas salgan fuera a causa de la enfermedad, día tras día.”

16Incitó Yahvé contra Joram el espíritu de los filisteos y de los árabes, vecinos de los etíopes,

17los cuales subiendo contra Judá, y penetrando allí se llevaron todas las riquezas que hallaron en la casa del rey, y también a sus hijos y a sus mujeres, de manera que no le quedó otro hijo que Joacaz, su hijo menor.

18Después de todo esto Yahvé lo hirió con una enfermedad incurable de vientre.

19Y después de cierto tiempo, al fin del año segundo, se le salieron las entrañas a causa de su enfermedad, y murió entre terribles dolores. El pueblo no hizo quema para él, como lo había hecho para sus padres.

20Tenía treinta y dos años cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó en Jerusalén ocho años. Se fue sin que nadie le extrañase; y le sepultaron en la ciudad de David, pero no en los sepulcros de los reyes.

1Dormivit autem Josaphat cum patribus suis, et sepultus est cum eis in civitate David: regnavitque Joram filius ejus pro eo.

2Qui habuit fratres filios Josaphat, Azariam, et Jahiel, et Zachariam, et Azariam, et Michaël, et Saphatiam: omnes hi filii Josaphat regis Juda.

3Deditque eis pater suus multa munera argenti et auri, et pensitationes, cum civitatibus munitissimis in Juda: regnum autem tradidit Joram, eo quod esset primogenitus.

4Surrexit ergo Joram super regnum patris sui: cumque se confirmasset, occidit omnes fratres suos gladio, et quosdam de principibus Israël.

5Triginta duorum annorum erat Joram cum regnare cœpisset, et octo annis regnavit in Jerusalem.

6Ambulavitque in viis regum Israël, sicut egerat domus Achab: filia quippe Achab erat uxor ejus: et fecit malum in conspectu Domini.

7Noluit autem Dominus disperdere domum David propter pactum quod inierat cum eo: et quia promiserat ut daret ei lucernam, et filiis ejus omni tempore.

8In diebus illis rebellavit Edom, ne esset subditus Judæ, et constituit sibi regem.

9Cumque transisset Joram cum principibus suis, et cuncto equitatu qui erat secum, surrexit nocte, et percussit Edom, qui se circumdederat, et omnes duces equitatus ejus.

10Attamen rebellavit Edom, ne esset sub ditione Juda usque ad hanc diem: eo tempore et Lobna recessit ne esset sub manu illius. Dereliquerat enim Dominum Deum patrum suorum:

11insuper et excelsa fabricatus est in urbibus Juda, et fornicari fecit habitatores Jerusalem, et prævaricari Judam.

12Allatæ sunt autem ei litteræ ab Elia propheta, in quibus scriptum erat: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus David patris tui: Quoniam non ambulasti in viis Josaphat patris tui, et in viis Asa regis Juda,

13sed incessisti per iter regum Israël, et fornicari fecisti Judam et habitatores Jerusalem, imitatus fornicationem domus Achab, insuper et fratres tuos, domum patris tui, meliores te, occidisti:

14ecce Dominus percutiet te plaga magna cum populo tuo, et filiis, et uxoribus tuis, universaque substantia tua.

15Tu autem ægrotabis pessimo languore uteri tui, donec egrediantur vitalia tua paulatim per singulos dies.

16Suscitavit ergo Dominus contra Joram spiritum Philisthinorum, et Arabum qui confines sunt Æthiopibus:

17et ascenderunt in terram Juda, et vastaverunt eam, diripueruntque cunctam substantiam quæ inventa est in domo regis, insuper et filios ejus, et uxores: nec remansit ei filius, nisi Joachaz, qui minimus natu erat.

18Et super hæc omnia percussit eum Dominus alvi languore insanabili.

19Cumque diei succederet dies, et temporum spatia volverentur, duorum annorum expletus est circulus: et sic longa consumptus tabe, ita ut egereret etiam viscera sua, languore pariter, et vita caruit. Mortuusque est in infirmitate pessima, et non fecit ei populus secundum morem combustionis exequias, sicut fecerat majoribus ejus.

20Triginta duorum annorum fuit cum regnare cœpisset, et octo annis regnavit in Jerusalem. Ambulavitque non recte, et sepelierunt eum in civitate David, verumtamen non in sepulchro regum.

1And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.

2And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel, and Zacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were the sons of Josaphat king of Juda.

3And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and pensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to Joram, because he was the eldest.

4So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had established himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some of the princes of Israel.

5Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

6And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

7But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the covenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.

8In those days Edom revolted, from being subject to Juda, and made themselves a king.

9And Joram went over with his princes, and all his cavalry with him, and rose in the night, and defeated the Edomites who had surrounded him, and all the captains of his cavalry.

10However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda unto this day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his hand. For he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers:

11Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to transgress.

12And there was a letter brought him from Elias the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda,

13But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,

14Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

15And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.

16And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.

17And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, his sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest.

18And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable disease in his bowels.

19And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years passed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void his very bowels, his disease ended with his life. And he died of a most wretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him according to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.

20He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.