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2 Kings 8:21
“Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 8
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However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
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In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
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Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
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So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time.
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The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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