And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. ] First with Ahab, with whom he contracted an affinity, and joined with him in his expedition to Ramothgilead, and with Ahaziah his successor.
42
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
43
He walked in all of the way of Asa his father, and he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Yahweh. Only he did not remove the high places; the people [were] still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
44
But, Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45
The remainder of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his powerful [deeds] he did, and how he fought, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?
46
The remainder of the male shrine prostitutes who were left over in the days of Asa his father he exterminated from the land.
Footnotes 1
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1 Kings 22:44- 53 in the English Bible is 22:45-54 in the Hebrew Bible
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