8:16 以色列王亞哈的兒子約蘭第五年，猶大王約沙法還在位的時候，約沙法的兒子約蘭登基作了猶大王。
8:17 約蘭登基的時候年三十二歲，在耶路撒冷作王八年。
8:18 他行以色列諸王所行的，與亞哈家一樣；因為他娶了亞哈的女兒為妻，行耶和華眼中看為惡的事。
8:19 耶和華卻因他僕人大衛的緣故，仍不肯滅絕猶大，照他所應許大衛的話，永遠賜燈光與他的子孫。
8:20 約蘭年間，以東人背叛猶大，脫離他的權下，自己立王。
8:21 約蘭率領所有的戰車往撒益去，夜間起來，攻打圍困他的以東人和車兵長；猶大兵就逃跑，各回各家去了。
8:22 這樣，以東人背叛猶大，脫離他的權下，直到今日。那時立拿人也背叛了。
8:23 約蘭其餘的事，凡他所行的，都寫在猶大列王記上。
8:24 約蘭與他列祖同睡，葬在大衛城他列祖的墳地裡。他兒子亞哈謝接續他作王。
16 In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat began his reign as king of Judah. 17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. 18 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. 19 Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
20 In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king. 21 So Jehoram[b] went to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night; his army, however, fled back home. 22 To this day Edom has been in rebellion against Judah. Libnah revolted at the same time.
23 As for the other events of Jehoram’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? 24 Jehoram rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.
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猶大王約沙法還在位的時候，約沙法的兒子約蘭登基作了猶大王。然而約蘭並不是一位好王，因為他娶了亞哈的女兒為妻，行耶和華眼中看為惡的事。雖然如此，生經告訴我們：「耶和華卻因他僕人大衛的緣故，仍不肯滅絕猶大，照他所應許大衛的話，永遠賜燈光與他的子孫。」
然而上帝雖然不滅猶大，仍然讓猶大國勢衰敗，讓以東不再受猶大所控制，還有立拿人也背叛了。
而上帝之一切作為，就是為了預備基督，所以保守大衛家族和猶大國。
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