Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.

And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? / And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.