Reign of Jehoshaphat

Scripture

• 1 Kings 22:41

  And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

• 1 Kings 22:42

  Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

• 1 Kings 22:43

  And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

• 1 Kings 22:44

  And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

• 1 Kings 22:46

  And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

• 1 Kings 22:47

  There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

• 1 Kings 22:48

  Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion–geber.

• 1 Kings 22:49

  Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

• 1 Kings 22:50

  And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.