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In the Hebrew version of 2 Kings, Jehoram of Judah simply becomes king, but the Greek Septuagint translation adds that Jehoshaphat was still king, suggesting that the father and son ruled together.
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2 Kings 8:16
Hebrew Bible
15 The next day Hazael took a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over Ben Hadad’s face until he died. Then Hazael replaced him as king. 16 In the fifth year of the reign of Israel’s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram became king over Judah. 17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.
LXX 2 Kings 8:16
Septuagint
15 It happened on the next day that he took the chabbac and dipped it in the water and covered over his face so that he died. Hazael ruled in his place. 16 In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, while Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah. 17 He was the son of thirty-two years when he became king, and he ruled forty years in Jerusalem.
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... Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. The verse picks up the Judaean monarchic line last treated in 1 Kings 22:52. The additional phrase in the Masoretic Text wyhwspṭ mlk yhwdh is a dittograph of the concluding phrase. ... he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. According to the synchronism in 2 Kings 3:1, Joram of Israel came to the throne in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat of Judah. If Jehoshaphat reigned twenty-five years, Jehoram his son ascended the throne in the eighth year of Joram of Israel. But according to the present verse, Jehoram reigned eight years, down to the twelfth year of Joram. This four-year discrepancy is usually accounted for by positing a coregency of Jehoram with his father, Jehoshaphat. ...
Cogan, Mordechai and Hayim Tadmor
II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
(p. 95) Doubleday, 1988
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