Jehoram

Also called Joram

924–885 BC, 39 years traditional (Jones)

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Jehoshaphat
Partner: Athaliah
Children: Ahaziah, Jehoshabeath
Siblings: Azariah, Azariah, Jehiel, Michael, Shephatiah, Zechariah
Born at: Jerusalem
Died at: Jerusalem
Tagged in: 16 verses

The 40th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Born in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Named in the same verses as Ahaziah, Jehoshaphat, Joash, David, Athaliah, Jehoshabeath, Asa, and Hazael.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Stories

2 events in which Jehoram takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

892 BCReign of Jehoram2 Kgs 1:17–8:24
885 BCDeath of Jehoram2 Kgs 8:24

Places

Places named in the same verses as Jehoram, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

likely location: Jerusalem3
location not graded: Syria1
possible location: Zair1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 949–860 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around this life, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

16 tagged verses in 5 books. Select a book to read its verses.

1 Kings1
2 Kings5
1 Chronicles1
2 Chronicles8
Matthew1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Jehoram 35Joram 32
KJV	Jehoram 23Joram 29
ASV	Jehoram 22Joram 30

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 16 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Kings1 verse

22:50
And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.

2 Kings5 verses

8:21
So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.
8:23
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoram, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
8:24
And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
11:2
But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.
12:18
So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles1 verse

3:11
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

2 Chronicles8 verses

21:1
And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.
21:3
Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
21:4
When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.
21:5
Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
21:9
So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.
21:16
Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
22:1
Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
22:11
But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.

Matthew1 verse

1:8
Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

The eldest son and successor of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. He reigned eight years (B.C. 892-885) alone as king of Judah, having been previously for some years associated with his father (2 Chr. 21:5, 20; 2 Kings 8:16). His wife was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. His daughter Jehosheba was married to the high priest Jehoiada. He sank into gross idolatry, and brought upon himself and his kingdom the anger of Jehovah. The Edomites revolted from under his yoke, and the Philistines and the Arabians and Cushites invaded the land, and carried away great spoil, along with Jehoram’s wives and all his children, except Ahaziah. He died a painful death from a fearful malady, and was refused a place in the sepulchre of the kings (2 Kings 8:16-24; 2 Chr. 21).