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Jehoshaphat (/ dʒ ə ˈ h ɒ ʃ ə f æ t /; alternatively spelled Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; Hebrew: יְהוֹשָׁפָט, Modern: Yəhōšafaṭ, Tiberian: Yŏhōšāp̄āṭ, "Yahweh has judged"; [1] Greek: Ἰωσαφάτ, romanized: Iosafát; Latin: Josaphat), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Asa, and the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, in succession to his ...
According to McFall's revision of Thiele's chronology, the phrase "second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah" in 2 Kings 1:17 is the period of "co-regency" on the throne of Judah with his father Jehoshaphat, [10] who was then in his 18th year of sole reign as noted in 2 Kings 3:1.
Jehu (/ ˈ dʒ iː h uː /; Hebrew: יֵהוּא, romanized: Yēhūʾ, meaning "Yah is He"; Akkadian: 𒅀𒌑𒀀 Ya'úa [ia-ú-a]; Latin: Iehu) was the tenth king of the northern Kingdom of Israel since Jeroboam I, noted for exterminating the house of Ahab.
Elisha directs one of the sons of the prophets to anoint Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, as king of Israel, and commissions him to cut off the house of Ahab. [12] The death of Jehoram, pierced by an arrow from Jehu's bow, the end of Jezebel, [26] and the slaughter of Ahab's seventy sons, proved how he executed that demand. [27]
He was the son of King Ahab and Jezebel and brother to Ahaziah and Athaliah. According to 2 Kings 8:16, in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel, a different Jehoram became king of Judah. The author of the Books of Kings speaks of both Jehoram of Israel and Jehoram of Judah in the same passage. They were brothers-in-law since Jehoram of Judah ...
Asa son of Abijah was zealous in maintaining the traditional worship of God, and in rooting out idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities. After concluding a battle with Zerah of Ethiopia in the 10th year of his reign, there was peace in Judah ( 2 Chronicles 14:1,9 ) until the 36th year of Asa's reign ( 2 Chronicles 16:1 ).
Baruchi-Unna suggests that Nimshi was a son of King Omri and a brother of King Ahab. Jehu's father, Jehoshaphat, would consequently be a first cousin to Ahab's children: Ahaziah of Israel, Jehoram of Israel, and Athaliah, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Judah. [3]
Jehoshaphat, son of Asa, was the fourth king of Judah according to 1 Kings 15:24 in the Hebrew Bible. Jehoshaphat may also refer to: Jehoshaphat the Recorder, son of Ahilud, a scribe who appears in 2 Samuel 8:16 and 2 Samuel 20:24. Jehoshaphat, son of Paruah, Solomon's administrator in Issachar, who appears in 1 Kings 4:17