41 Asa’s son Yehoshafat started his reign over Yehudah when King Ahav had ruled Israel for four years. 42 Yehoshafat was thirty-five when he became king and he reigned from Yerushalem for twenty-five years. (His mother was Shilhi’s daughter Azuvah.) 43 He followed his father Asa in every way in doing what Yahweh wanted—he didn’t veer away from it, except that they didn’t demolish the hilltop temples so the people were still sacrificing and burning incense at those places. 44 Yehoshafat did make a peace treaty with Israel’s king.

45 Everything else about Yehoshafat, including his great achievements and his battle record, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah, 46 and including how he banished the male prostitutes from the land who had remained from the time of his father Asa.

47 At that time, there was no king in Edom—a governor appointed by Yehoshafat ruled there.

48 Yehoshafat had trading ships made to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go because the ships got wrecked at Etsyon-Gaver. 49 Ahav’s son Ahazziah had said to Yehoshafat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Yehoshafat hadn’t accepted the offer.

50 Then Yehoshafat died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of his ancestor David, and his son Yehoram replaced him as king.

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