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And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it
was
not the king of
Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
34
And a
certain
man drew a bow at a venture, and
smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his
chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I amwounded.
35
And the battle increased
that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the
blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
36
And there went a proclamation throughout
the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own
country.
37
So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
38
And
one
washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed
his armour; according unto the word of the L
ORD
which he spake.
39
Now the rest of the acts of
Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
40
So Ahab slept with his fathers;
and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
41
And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of
Israel.
42
Jehoshaphat
was
thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty
and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
was
Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43
And he
walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing
that which was
right in
the eyes of the L
ORD
: nevertheless the high places were not taken away;
for
the people offered and
burnt incense yet in the high places.
44
And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45
Now
the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred,
are
they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46
And the remnant of the sodomites,
which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
47
There was
then no king in
Edom: a deputy
was
king.
48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they
went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
49
Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto
Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
50
And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David
his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
51
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
52
And he did evil in the sight of the
L
ORD
, and 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 made Israel to sin:
53
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked
to anger the L
ORD
God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
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