1 Kings 22:41–50

The New Rulers

^41aNow Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

⁴²Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

^43aHe walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord. ^bHowever, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

^44aJehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.

⁴⁵Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warred, are they not written ^ain the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

⁴⁶The remnant of ^athe sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he ¹expelled from the land.

⁴⁷Now ^athere was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

⁴⁸Jehoshaphat made ^aships of Tarshish to go to ^bOphir for gold, but ^cthey did not go for the ships were broken at ^dEzion-geber.

⁴⁹Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat was not willing.

^50aAnd Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place.