1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
47And there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.
Cross References
Genesis 27:37And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. And what then shall I do for thee, my son?
2 Samuel 8:14And he put garrisons in Edom. He put garrisons throughout all Edom, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Kings 9:28And they came to Ophir, and fetched gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom. And they made a circuit of seven days' journey, and there was no water for the army, nor for the beasts that followed them.
2 Chronicles 9:21For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 20:35And after this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 22:42-53
Jehoshaphat's Death. ( b. c. 897.) 41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord : nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people… Read the whole commentary →