16In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, while Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.17He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.18He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, because the daughter of Ahab had become his wife, and he did what was bad in the eyes of the LORD.19Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, because of David his servant, for he had promised him to give him a lamp for his sons for all the days.20During his days Edom transgressed from under the hand of Judah, and they made a king reign over them.21So Joram passed over to Zair, and all the chariots with him; and he arose by night and struck the Edomites who were turning toward him, and the commanders of the chariots, and the people fled to their tents.22Thus Edom has remained in rebellion against the hand of Judah to this day; at that same time Libnah also rebelled.23And the remainder of the words of Joram and all that he did, are they not written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?24Joram lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.