1 Kings 22:47
(22:48) There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 25:23And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people 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 any king over the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
2 Kings 8:20In his days Edom revolted from under the power of Judah, and they appointed 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 →