1 Kings 22:2
And it came about in the third year, that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.
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In Context
1Now for three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
Cross References
1 Kings 15:24So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.
1 Kings 22:41And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.
2 Kings 8:18He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Matthew 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 22:2-15
Jehoshaphat's League with Ahab. ( b. c. 897.) 1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. 2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. 3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? 4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as… Read the whole commentary →