⁴⁶But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

⁴⁷And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa, his father, he took out of the land.

⁴⁸And there was then no king appointed in Edom.

⁴⁹But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.

⁵⁰Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat: Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not.

⁵¹And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead.

⁵²And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to reign over Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he reigned over Israel two years.

⁵³And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

⁵⁴He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

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