1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go, for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.
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47There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.
Cross References
Genesis 27:37Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”
2 Samuel 8:14He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Kings 9:28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.
2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
2 Chronicles 9:21For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 20:35After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.
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 →