1 Kings 22:47

and there is no king in Edom; he set up a king.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

In Context

46And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land;

48Jehoshaphat made ships at Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, and they went not, for the ships were broken in Ezion-Geber.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:23And Jehovah saith to her, 'Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the [one] people than the [other] people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

Genesis 36:31And these [are] the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

2 Kings 8:20In his days hath Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they cause a king to reign over them,

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 →

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