Add parallel Print Page Options

46 He also eliminated the male cult prostitutes who still remained from the time of his father Asa.

47 There was no king reigning in Edom; there was only a stand-in[a] king. 48 Jehoshaphat had ocean-going vessels from Tarshish sail to Ophir[b] for gold, but they never made it because they were shipwrecked at Ezion-geber.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:47 Or deputy
  2. 1 Kings 22:48 Or a source of fine gold; cf. 1Chr 29:4

46 He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes(A) who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa. 47 There was then no king(B) in Edom; a provincial governor ruled.

48 Now Jehoshaphat built a fleet of trading ships[a](C) to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail—they were wrecked at Ezion Geber.(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:48 Hebrew of ships of Tarshish