¹⁹ Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the Lord was not willing to destroy^(A) Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp^(B) for David and his descendants forever.

²⁰ In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.^{(C) 21} So Jehoram^[a] went to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night; his army, however, fled back home.