1 Kings 22:47
And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa his father, he took out of the land.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
In Context
48And there was then no king appointed in Edom.
Cross References
Genesis 25:23And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.
Genesis 36:31And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king were these:
1 Kings 15:12And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
2 Kings 8:20In his days Edom revolted, from being under Juda, and made themselves a king.
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 →