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The Omride Infection and the Biological Termination of Yahoram
Now Yahushaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawid. And Yahoram his son reigned in his stead.
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And he had brethren the sons of Yahushaphat, Azaryahu, and Yechiel, and Zekaryahu, and Azaryahu, and Mikael, and Shephatyahu: all these were the sons of Yahushaphat king of Yashar'al.
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And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Yahudah: but the kingdom gave he to Yahoram; because he was the firstborn.
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The Slaughter of the Pure Seed
Now when Yahoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Yashar'al.
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The Span of the Corrupted Reign
Yahoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yarushalayim.
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The Athaliah Frequency
And he walked in the way of the kings of Yashar'al, like as did the house of Achab: for he had the daughter of Achab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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The Judicial Shield of the Covenant
Howbeit 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 would not destroy the house of Dawid, because of the covenant that He had made with Dawid, and as He promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever.
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The Fragmentation of the Terrestrial Grid
In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Yahudah, and made themselves a king.
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Then Yahoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
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So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Yahudah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of his fathers.
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The Profanation of the Portal
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Yahudah, and caused the inhabitants of Yarushalayim to commit fornication, and compelled Yahudah thereto.
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The Celestial Dispatch from Eliyahu
And there came a writing to him from Eliyahu the prophet, saying, "Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of Dawid thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Yahushaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Yahudah,"
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"But hast walked in the way of the kings of Yashar'al, and hast made Yahudah and the inhabitants of Yarushalayim to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Achab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:"
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The Decree of the Great Plague
"Behold, with a great plague will 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:"
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The Decree of Biological Decay
"And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day."
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The Invasion of the Adversarial Matrices
Moreover 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 stirred up against Yahoram the spirit of the Peleshet, and of the Arabians, that were near the Kushim:
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The Extraction of the Royal Seed
And they came up into Yahudah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Ahazyahu, the youngest of his sons.
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The Execution of the Biological Judgment
And after all this 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
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The Unlamented Termination
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yarushalayim eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of Dawid, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.