1 Kings 22:36-46

36 ¹Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset *, saying, "Every man to his city and every man to his country."

37 So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.

38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), ²according to the word of the LORD which He spoke.

39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and ³the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Israel?

40 So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

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41 ⁴Now Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

42 Jehoshaphat 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.

43 ⁵He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. ⁶However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

44 ⁷Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.

45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warred, are they not written ⁸in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?

46 The remnant of ⁹the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.

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1 Kings 22:36-46 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. 2 Kings 14:12
2. 1 Kings 21:19
3. Amos 3:15
4. 2 Chronicles 20:31
5. 2 Chronicles 17:3
6. 1 Kings 15:14; 2 Kings 12:3
7. 1 Kings 22:2; 2 Kings 8:16, 18; 2 Chronicles 19:2
8. 2 Chronicles 20:34
9. Genesis 19:5; Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; Jude 7

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "land"
[b]. Lit "consumed"