SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:16
¶ En el quinto ańo de Joram hijo de Acab rey de Israel, y siendo Josafat rey de Judá, comenzó a reinar Joram hijo de Josafat rey de Judá.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 8:16
Verse 16. In the fifth year of Joram] This verse, as it stands in the present Hebrew text, may be thus read: "And in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, [and of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah,] reigned Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah." The three Hebrew words, hdwhy űlm fpŤwhyw , and of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, greatly disturb the chronology in this place. It is certain that Jehoshaphat reigned twenty-five years, and that Jehoram his son reigned but eight; 1 Kings xxii. 42; ver. 17; 2 Chron. xx. 31; xxi. 5. So that he could not have reigned during his father's life without being king twenty years, and eight years! These words are wanting in three of Kennicott's and Deuteronomy Rossi's MSS. in the Complutensian and Aldine editions of the Septuagint, in the Peshito Syriac, in the Parisian Heptapler Syriac, the Arabic, and in many copies of the Vulgate, collated by Dr. Kennicott and Deuteronomy Rossi, both printed and manuscript; to which may be added two MSS. in my own library, one of the fourteenth, the other of the eleventh century, and in what I judge to be the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate. And it is worthy of remark that in this latter work, after the fifteenth verse, ending with Quo mortuo regnavit Azahel pro eo, the following words are in a smaller character, Anno quinto Joram filii Achab regis Israhel, regnavit Joram filius Josaphat rex Juda. Triginta, &c. We have already seen that it is supposed that Jehoshaphat associated his son with him in the kingdom; and that the fifth year in this place only regards Joram king of Israel, and not Jehoshaphat king of Judah. See the notes on chap. i. 17.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel , etc.] Who began his reign in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, ( <120301> Kings 3:1). Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah ; as he continued to be two years more; for this must be in the twenty third year of his reign, and he reigned twenty five years, ( 1 Kings 22:42). Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign ; according to Dr. Lightfoot f106 , there were three beginnings of his reign; “first”, when his father went with Ahab to Ramothgilead, when be was left viceroy, and afterwards his father reassumed the kingdom; the “second” time was, when Jehoshaphat went with the kings of Israel and Edom against Moab; and this is the time here respected, which was in the fifth of Joram king of Israel; and the “third” time was, at the death of his father; but knew his father was living.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16-24 - A general idea is given of Jehoram's badness. His father, no doubt, ha him taught the true knowledge of the Lord, but did ill to marry him to the daughter of Ahab; no good could come of union with an idolatrou family.
Original Hebrew
ובשׁנת 8141 חמשׁ 2568 ליורם 3141 בן 1121 אחאב 256 מלך 4428 ישׂראל 3478 ויהושׁפט 3092 מלך 4428 יהודה 3063 מלך 4427 יהורם 3088 בן 1121 יהושׁפט 3092 מלך 4428 יהודה׃ 3063
