⁸ In the time of Jehoram, Edom^(A) rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.

¹⁰ To this day Edom has been in rebellion against Judah.

Libnah^(A) revolted at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

²² As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes^(A) against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. ²³ The Ammonites^(B) and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir^(C) to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.^(D)

²⁰ In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.^{(A) 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. ²² To this day Edom has been in rebellion^(B) against Judah. Libnah^(C) revolted at the same time.

⁹ So the king of Israel set out with the king of Judah and the king of Edom.^(A) After a roundabout march of seven days, the army had no more water for themselves or for the animals with them.

⁴⁷ There was then no king^(A) in Edom; a provincial governor ruled.