1 Kings 22:47

And there was no king in Edom: a deputy reigned.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

In Context

46And the remainder of the sodomites, which were left in the days of his father Asa, he put away from out of the land.

48Jehoshaphat made Tarshish-ships to go to Ophir for gold; but they went not, for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:23And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And one people shall be stronger than the other people, And the elder shall serve the younger.

Genesis 36:31And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned a king over the children of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

2 Kings 8:20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set a king over 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 →

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