Jehoram's accession — succession and fratricide — 'Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his place' (וישׁכב יהושׁפט עם אבתיו ויקבר עם אבתיו בעיר דוד וימלך יהורם בנו תחתיו). The verb שׁכב (slept) uses the biblical euphemism for death; burial 'in the City of David' denotes royal legitimacy and Jerusalem's sacred center. The succession to Jehoram (יהורם) is presented as automatic and divinely ordained through inheritance. Yet the Chronicler will immediately qualify this with a record of Jehoram's apostasy. The transition from a faithful king to an unfaithful son embodies the covenant pattern: each generation must choose faithfulness or face judgment.

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