1 Kings 22:44
Nevertheless he took not away the high places: for as Set the people offered sacrifices and burnt incense in the high places.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
In Context
45And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:2But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: far there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.
1 Kings 22:2And in the third year, Josaphat king of Juda came down to the king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:
Isaiah 65:7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.
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 →