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Joram had married a daughter of Ahab, namely Athaliah (2Ki 8:26), and walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, transplanting the worship of Baal into his kingdom. Immediately after the death of Jehoshaphat he murdered his brothers, apparently with no other object than to obtain possession of the treasures which his father had left them (2Ch 21:2-4). This wickedness of Joram would have been followed by the destruction of Judah, had not the Lord preserved a shoot to the royal house for David's sake. For נִיר לֹו לָתֵת see 1Ki 11:36. The following word לְבָנָיו serves as an explanation of נִיר לֹו, “a light with regard to his sons,” i.e., by the fact that he kept sons (descendants) upon the throne.