1 Kings 22:47
And there was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
In Context
46He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
Cross References
Genesis 25:23and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Genesis 36:31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
1 Kings 15:12He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
2 Kings 8:20In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own 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 →