1 Kings 22:47
There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 25:23The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”
Genesis 36:31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
2 Kings 8:20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made 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 →