1 Kings 22:47
Then, too, the remnant of the effeminate, who had remained in the days of Asa, his father, he took away from the land.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
In Context
48At that time, there was no king appointed in Idumea.
Cross References
Genesis 25:23And responding, he said, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be divided out of your womb, and one people will overcome the other people, and the elder will serve the younger.”
Genesis 36:31Now before the sons of Israel had a king, the kings who ruled in the land of Edom were these:
1 Kings 15:12And he took away the effeminate from the land. And he purged all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
2 Kings 8:20In his days, Idumea drew apart, so as not to be under Judah, and they appointed a king for themselves.
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 →