Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
2 Chronicles 21:1
CHAPTER XXI
Jehoram succeeds his father Jehoshaphat; and commences his
reign with the murder of his brethren, and of several of
the princes of Israel, 1-5.
He walks in the way of Ahab, whose bad daughter, Athaliah,
he had married, 6.
God remembers his covenant with David, and does not destroy
the nation, 7.
The Edomites revolt, 8-10.
Jehoram restores the high places in the mountains of Judah,
and greatly corrupts the morals of the people, 11.
A letter comes to him from Elijah, 12-15.
The Philistines and Arabians come up against him, pillage his
house, and take away his wives, with all his sons except
Jehoahaz, 16, 17.
He is smitten with an incurable disease in his bowels; of
which, in two years, he dies miserably, after a profligate
reign of eight years, 18-20.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXI