1 Kings 22:41-53

The New Rulers

41 ¹Now 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 ²He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. ³However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

44 ⁴Jehoshaphat 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 ⁵in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?

46 The remnant of ⁶the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.

47 Now ⁷there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

48 Jehoshaphat made ⁸ships of Tarshish to go to ⁹Ophir for gold, but ¹⁰they did not go for the ships were broken 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 his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place.

51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab ¹³became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth * year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

52 He did evil in the sight of the LORD and ¹⁴walked 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 ¹⁵So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

1 Kings 22:41-53 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. 2 Chronicles 20:31
• 2. 2 Chronicles 17:3
• 3. 1 Kings 15:14; 2 Kings 12:3
• 4. 1 Kings 22:2; 2 Kings 8:16, 18; 2 Chronicles 19:2
• 5. 2 Chronicles 20:34
• 6. Genesis 19:5; Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; Jude 7
• 7. 2 Samuel 8:14; 2 Kings 3:9
• 8. 1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 20:36
• 9. 1 Kings 9:28
• 10. 2 Chronicles 20:37
• 11. 1 Kings 9:26
• 12. 2 Chronicles 21:1
• 13. 1 Kings 22:40
• 14. 1 Kings 15:26; 1 Kings 21:25
• 15. Judges 2:11; 1 Kings 16:30-32

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "consumed"