1. Now Jehoram son of Ahab reigned over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and reigned twelve years.
2. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
3. Nevertheless he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. He did not depart from them.
4. Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-breeder and gave back to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
5. But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6. King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.