For example, 2 Chronicles 22:5–6 reads: Likewise, the king of Judah is referred to as Jehoram or Joram in a single translation.

To secure his position Jehoram killed his six brothers,[3] who were named as Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azaryahu, Michael, and Shephatiah in 2 Chronicles 21:2.

His father, Jehoshaphat, had allied with the Kingdom of Israel, and one of the terms of this alliance was that Jehoram married Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab.

Edom, then ruled by a viceroy of the king of Judah,[4] revolted, and when Jehoram marched against this people, his army fled before the Edomites.

His wickedness would have brought his people to destruction, except for the promise to David "to give him always a light, and to his children" (ib.

About the same time, Libnah revolted, and the Philistines and Arabians invaded the land of Judah, captured and sacked Jerusalem, and carried off all the royal household except Jehoahaz (Ahaziah; II Chron.

During this time, he received a letter from the prophet Elijah, warning him God would put a plague on the land and smite him for his poor ruling (2 Chronicles 21:12–15).

After this, God smote Jehoram with an illness that made "his bowels fall out," and he died two years later (2 Chronicles 21:18–19).

[6] Modern scholars debate whether this illness was a form of colorectal cancer,[7] or some other issue resulting in rectal prolapse.

[8] As explained in the Rehoboam article, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency that later scholars corrected by dating these kings one year earlier, so that Jehoram's dates are taken as one year earlier in the present article: coregency beginning in 854/853, sole reign commencing in 849/848, and death in 842/841 BCE.

These changes can be inferred from a careful comparison of the textual data in the Scripture, but because the Scriptural texts do not state explicitly whether the reckoning was by accession or non-accession counting, nor do they indicate explicitly when a change was made in the method, many have criticized Thiele's chronology as being entirely arbitrary in its assignment of accession and non-accession reckoning.

The official records of Tiglath-Pileser III show that he switched (arbitrarily) to non-accession reckoning for his reign, in contrast with the accession method used for previous kings of Assyria.