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.

⁵⁰^aAnd 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.

⁵¹Ahaziah the son of Ahab ^abecame king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

⁵²He did evil in the sight of the Lord and ^awalked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

⁵³^aSo he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

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Cross references

a 1 Kin 22:2; 2 Kin 8:16, 18; 2 Chr 19:2
a 2 Chr 20:34
a Gen 19:5; Deut 23:17; 1 Kin 14:24; 15:12; Jude 7
a 2 Sam 8:14; 2 Kin 3:9
a 1 Kin 10:22; 2 Chr 20:36
b 1 Kin 9:28
c 2 Chr 20:37
d 1 Kin 9:26
a 2 Chr 21:1
a 1 Kin 22:40
a 1 Kin 15:26; 21:25
a Judg 2:11; 1 Kin 16:30–32