1 Joram son of Ahab became king over Israel at Samaria in Jehoshaphat’s eighteenth year as king of Judah. And Joram ruled twelve years.
2 He did what the Lord said was wrong, but he was not like his father and mother; he removed the stone pillars his father had made for Baal.
3 But he continued to sin like Jeroboam son of Nebat who had led Israel to sin. Joram did not stop doing these same sins.
4 Mesha king of Moab raised sheep. He paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand sheep.
5 But when Ahab died, the king of Moab turned against the king of Israel.