2 Kings 8:15-17

New Catholic Bible

¹⁵ The next day he took a thick cloth and soaked it in water. He placed it over the king’s face, so that he died. Hazael then reigned in his stead.

¹⁶ Reign of Joram of Judah. In the fifth year of the reign of Joram, the son of Ahab, the king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah, Joram, the son of Jehoshaphat, began to reign over Judah. ¹⁷ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.