1 Kings 22:41-50
1599 Geneva Bible
41 ¶ (A)And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign upon Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
42 Jehoshaphat was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father, and declined not there from, but did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless, [a]the high places were not taken away: for the people offered still, and burnt incense in the high places.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Concerning the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his worthy deeds that he did, and his battles which he fought, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46 And the Sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he put clean out of the land.
47 There was then no King in Edom: the [b]deputy was king.
48 Jehoshaphat made ships of [c]Tarshish to sail to [d]Ophir for gold, but they went not, for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships, But Jehoshaphat would not.
50 And Jehoshaphat did sleep with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
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- 1 Kings 22:43 Meaning, that he was led with an error, thinking that they might still sacrifice to the Lord in those places, as well as they did before the Temple was built.
- 1 Kings 22:47 In the time of this king, Idumea was subject to Judah, and was governed by whom they of Judah appointed.
- 1 Kings 22:48 By Tarshish the Scripture meaneth Cilicia and all the sea called Mediterranean.
- 1 Kings 22:48 Josephus writeth that Ophir is in India, where the Egyptians and Arabians traffic for gold.
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