31 Yehoshafat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned over Yehudah from Yerushalem for twenty-five years. His mother was Shilhi’s daughter, Azuvah. 32 He had similar priorities to his father Asa, doing what pleased Yahweh, and he didn’t deviate from that. 33 However, he never removed the hilltop shrines, and the people were not really serious about obeying the god of their ancestors.

34 Everything else that Yehoshafat did from the beginning to the end of his reign was written down by Hanani’s son Yehu in the scroll about Yisrael’s kings.

35 Later on, Yehudah’s King Yehoshafat made an alliance with Yisrael’s King Ahazyah (which was a wicked thing to do), 36 and they worked together to make ships at Etsyon-Gever to sail to Tarshish. 37 Then Dodavahu’s son Eliezer from Mareshah prophesied against Yehoshafat, saying, “When you allied yourself with Ahazyah, Yahweh broke through your works.” In due course, the ships were damaged and unable to sail to Tarshish.

21 Then Yehoshafat died and was buried with his ancestors in ‘The City of David’, and his son Yehoram (Jehoram) replaced him as king.