Reign of Jehoshaphat

Date: -913 (25Y)

Locations: Jerusalem

Participants: Jehoshaphat

Scripture References

• 1 Kings 22:41 — And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
• 1 Kings 22:42 — 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.
• 1 Kings 22:43 — 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 offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
• 1 Kings 22:44 — And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
• 1 Kings 22:46 — And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
• 1 Kings 22:47 — There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
• 1 Kings 22:48 — Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
• 1 Kings 22:49 — Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
• 1 Kings 22:50 — And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

Last updated: Dec 4, 2020