Jehoram of Judah

Jehoram of Judah is the king of the southern Kingdom of Judah, and the son of Jehoshaphat (2 Kings 8:16).

According to 2 Kings 8:16, Jehoram became king of Judah in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel, when his father Jehoshaphat was (still) king of Judah, indicating a co-regency.

The author of Kings also speaks of both Jehoram of Israel and Jehoram of Judah in the same passage, which can be confusing.

Jehoram took the throne at the age of 32 and reigned for eight years.

(2 Chronicles 21:5) To secure his position Jehoram killed all his brothers.

(2 Chronicles 21:2-4) William F. Albright has dated his reign to 849 BCE – 842 BCE.

Edwin Thiele placed a coregency of Jehoram with his father Jehoshaphat, starting in 853/852 BCE, with the beginning of his sole reign occurring in 848/847 and his death in 841/840 BCE.

As explained in the Rehoboam article, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency that later scholars corrected by dating these kings one year earlier, so that Jehoram's dates are taken as one year earlier: coregency beginning in 854/853, sole reign commencing in 849/848, and death in 842/841 BCE.

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