171 : Basic English : 2 Kings 3,4; Gospel of John 20 ) 1. And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.
2. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.
3. But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.
4. Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.
5. But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.
; AB church Lausanne )
