{"id":63140,"date":"2019-09-18T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=63140"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:19:10","slug":"when-did-jehoram-become-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/when-did-jehoram-become-king\/","title":{"rendered":"When Did Jehoram Become King?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[721],"acf":{"old_id":"63140","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":61002,"related_cahpter":"310","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The answer is to be found in the empty spaces in the text","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter reports that in the second year of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat of Judah, King Ahaziah son of Ahab of Israel died and his brother Jehoram succeeded him as king of Israel, for Ahaziah had no son (17).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surprisingly this report is in flat contradiction to other reports in the Bible. These other reports state that King Ahaziah son of Ahab died and Jehoram son of Ahab became King almost eight years earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to two other chapters in 2 Kings, Jehoram son of Ahab of Israel became king in the eighteenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah (2 Kings 3:1), and Jehoram son of King Jehoshaphat of Judah became king in the fifth year of King Joram son of Ahab of Israel (2 Kings 8:16).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also according to 1 Kings, Ahaziah died and Jehoram succeeded him as king of Israel in the eighteenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. 1 Kings tells that King Ahaziah who reigned over Israel two years, had become king in the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat, who reigned over Judah twenty-five years (1 Kings 22, 41-42, 52).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can we explain this contradiction? By understanding better the meaning of the very verse in our chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the original text in Hebrew there is a large space (&#8220;\u05e4&#8221;) in the middle of the problematic verse in our chapter. It divides it into two open sections (parashot petuchot). One section is &#8220;And [Ahaziah] died, according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram succeeded him as king&#8221; (17). The second section is &#8220;In the second year of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat of Judah&#8221; (17). The meaningful way of separating this verse into two sections tells us that maybe the second section &#8220;In the second year of King Jehoram of Judah&#8221; is related to a different story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe in the second year of King Jehoram of Judah the LORD took Elijah the prophet up to heaven in a whirlwind (2 Kings 2). 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