In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
So he died according to the word of the Lord which Eli´jah had spoken. And Jeho´ram reigned in his stead, in the second year of Jeho´ram the son of Jehosh´aphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehosh´aphat being then king of Judah, Jeho´ram the son of Jehosh´aphat king of Judah began to reign.