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Key facts
- Reign
- c. 852 – c. 841 BCE
- Predecessor
- Ahaziah
- Successor
- Jehu
- Father
- Ahab
- Mother
- Jezebel
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Place of death
- Tel Jezreel
- Father
- Ahab
- Mother
- Jezebel
- Sibling
- Ahaziah
- Occupation
- monarch
- Religion
- Canaanite religion
- Image
- Joram of Israel.jpg
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- Commons category
- Joram
- date of death
- 0841-01-01
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- name in native language
- יורם
- date of birth
- 0870-00-00
- different from
- Jehoram
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Encyclopedic overview
Jehoram or Joram (Hebrew: יְהוֹרָם, romanized: Yəhorām) was the ninth king of the northern Kingdom of Israel according to 2 Kings 8:16 and 2 Kings 8:25–28. He was the son of King Ahab and Jezebel and brother to Ahaziah and Athaliah.
According to 2 Kings 8:16, in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel, a different Jehoram became king of Judah. The author of the Books of Kings speaks of both Jehoram of Israel and Jehoram of Judah in the same passage. They were brothers-in-law since Jehoram of Judah married Athaliah, sister of Jehoram of Israel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jehoram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.