1 Kings 22:47
There was then no King in Edom: the deputie was King.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
In Context
46And the Sodomites, which remayned in the dayes of his father Asa, he put cleane out of the land.
Cross References
Genesis 25:23And the Lord sayd to her, Two nations are in thy wombe, and two maner of people shalbe diuided out of thy bowels, and the one people shall be mightier then the other, and the elder shall serue the yonger.
Genesis 36:31And these are the Kings that reigned in the lande of Edom, before there reigned any King ouer the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.
2 Kings 8:20In those dayes Edom rebelled from vnder the hand of Iudah, and made a King ouer themselues.
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 →