Thursday, November 12, 2020

~ After Asa and Ahab - Jehosphaphat and Ahaziah ~

  Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah
in the forth year of Ahab king of Israel.
Jehosphaphat was thirty-five years old
when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years.
His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
In everything he walked in the ways of his father Asa
and did not stray from them;
he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.

. . . Then Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers
and was buried with them in the city of David his father.
And Jehoram his son succeeded him.

Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria
in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
and he reigned over Israel two years.
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord,
because he walked in the ways of his father and mother
and in the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat,
who cased Israel to sin.
He served and worshiped Baal
and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger,
just as his father had done.

(I Kings 22:41-43, 50-53)


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