1 Kings 22:37-53

New American Standard Bible

³⁷ So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. ³⁸ They washed out the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (it was there that the prostitutes bathed themselves) ^(A)in accordance with the word of the Lord which He had spoken. ³⁹ Now as for the rest of the acts of Ahab and everything that he did, and ^(B)the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? ⁴⁰ So Ahab ^[a]lay down with his fathers, and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.

The New Rulers

^41 (C)Now Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. ⁴² Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. ^43 (D)He walked ^[b]entirely in the way of his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. ^(E)However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ^44 (F)Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.

⁴⁵ Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he made war, are they not written ^(G)in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ⁴⁶ And the remnant of ^(H)the cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he eliminated from the land.

⁴⁷ Now ^(I)there was no king in Edom; a governor served as king. ⁴⁸ Jehoshaphat built ^(J)ships of Tarshish to go to ^(K)Ophir for gold, but ^(L)they did not go, because the ships were destroyed at ^(M)Ezion-geber. ⁴⁹ Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat was not willing. ^50 (N)And Jehoshaphat ^[c]lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoram became king in his place.

⁵¹ Ahaziah the son of Ahab ^(O)became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years. ⁵² He did evil in the sight of the Lord and ^(P)walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who misled Israel into sin. ^53 (Q)So he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.