1 Kings 22:47
And, king, was there none in Edom, a prefect, was king.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 25:23And Yahweh said to her. Two nations, are in thy womb, And two races, from thy body, shall be parted,—And, one race, shall be stronger, than the other race, And the elder, shall serve the younger.
Genesis 36:31And, these, are the kings, who reigned in the land of Edom,—before there reigned a king of the sons of Israel:
1 Kings 15:12and he put away the male devotees out of the land,—and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
2 Kings 8:20In his days, did Edom revolt from under the hand of Judah,—and they set over them a 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 →