Forsooth Ahaziah, [the] son of Ahab, began to reign on Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and Ahaziah reigned on Israel two years.
Therefore he was dead by the word of the Lord, which word Elijah spake; and Joram, his brother, reigned for him, in the second year of Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; for Ahaziah had no son.
Therefore the king of Israel, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom, went forth, and compassed by the way of seven days; and there was not water to the host, and to the beasts, that pursued [or followed] them.
and he went in the counsel of them. And he went with Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, into battle against Hazael, king of Syria, into Ramoth of Gilead. And men of Syria wounded Joram;