1 Kings 22:41-53

1 Kings 22:41-53

[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;  twenty  and five  years  in Jerusalem.  And his mother's  name  was Azubah  the daughter  of Shilhi.  [43] 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.  [44] And Jehoshaphat  made peace  with the king  of Israel.  [45] Now the rest  of the acts  of Jehoshaphat,  and his might  that he shewed,  and how he warred,  are they not written  in the book  of the chronicles  of the kings  of Judah?  [46] And the remnant  of the sodomites,  which remained  in the days  of his father  Asa,  he took  out of the land.  [47] There was then no king  in Edom:  a deputy  was king.  [48] Jehoshaphat  ships  of Tharshish  to Ophir  for gold:  but they went  not; for the ships  were broken  at Eziongeber.  [49] Then said  Ahaziah  the son  of Ahab  unto Jehoshaphat,  Let my servants  in the ships.  But Jehoshaphat  would  [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. [51] Ahaziah  the son  of Ahab  began to reign  over Israel  in Samaria  the seventeenth  year  of Jehoshaphat  king  of Judah,  and reigned  two years  over Israel.  [52] And he did  evil  in the sight  of the LORD,  in the way  of his father,  and in the way  of his mother,  and in the way  of Jeroboam  the son  of Nebat,  who made Israel  to sin:  [53] For he served  Baal,  and worshipped  him, and provoked to anger  the LORD  God  of Israel,  according to all that his father  had done.