^{16 Ref} In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

^{17 Ref} He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

^{18 Ref} He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.