1 Kings 22:41-50

Jehoshaphat Reigns in Judah

41 ¹Jehoshaphat the son of ²Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

43 ³He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. Yet ⁴the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

44 ⁵Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.

45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written ⁶in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

46 And from the land he exterminated the remnant ⁷of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.

47 ⁸There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

48 Jehoshaphat made ⁹ships of Tarshish to go to ¹⁰Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at ¹¹Ezion-geber.

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

50 ¹²And 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 place.

1 Kings 22:41-50 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 22

This chapter relates, that after three years' peace with the king of Syria, Ahab was inclined to go to war with him, to take Ramothgilead out of his hands; and he drew in Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, to join him in it, 1Ki 22:1-4, but before they went into it, they took advice, Ahab of his four hundred prophets, which Jehoshaphat not being satisfied with, a true prophet of the Lord, Micahah, was sent for, 1Ki 22:5-14 who, when he came, jeered Ahab with what his prophets had said to him; intimated that he should be killed, and explained it to him how he came to be deceived by his prophets, 1Ki 22:15-23 upon which he was smitten on the cheek by Zedekiah, one of the false prophets, and imprisoned by the order of Ahab, 1Ki 22:24-28, after which the two kings went to the battle, and Jehoshaphat was in great danger of his life; but Ahab was wounded, and died, 1Ki 22:29-40, and the chapter is concluded with an account of the reign of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, 1Ki 22:41-50, and of Ahaziah king of Israel, 1Ki 22:51-53.

Cross References

• 1. For ver. 41-43, see 2 Chronicles 20:31-33
• 2. ver. 51
• 3. [2 Chronicles 17:3]
• 4. [1 Kings 15:14; 2 Kings 12:3]
• 5. [2 Chronicles 18:1; 2 Chronicles 20:35, 36]
• 6. [2 Chronicles 20:34]
• 7. 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12
• 8. [2 Samuel 8:14; 2 Kings 3:9; 2 Kings 8:20]
• 9. See 1 Kings 10:22
• 10. See 1 Kings 9:28
• 11. See 1 Kings 9:26
• 12. 2 Chronicles 21:1