45. Isn’t everything else about Jehoshaphat—the heroic acts he did and ⌊the wars⌋ he fought—written in the official records of the kings of Judah?
46. He rid the land of the male temple prostitutes who were left there from the time of his father Asa.
47. There was no king in Edom; instead, a deputy ruled.
48. Jehoshaphat made Tarshish-style ships to go to Ophir for gold. But they didn’t go because the ships were wrecked at Ezion Geber.
49. Then Ahaziah, son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat refused.
50. Jehoshaphat lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoram succeeded him as king.
51. Ahaziah, son of Ahab, became king of Israel in Samaria during Jehoshaphat’s seventeenth year as king of Judah. Ahaziah ruled Israel for two years.
52. He did what the Lord considered evil. He followed the example of his father and mother and of Jer o boam (Nebat’s son) who led Israel to sin.
53. Ahaziah served Baal, worshiped him, and made the Lord God of Israel furious, as his father had done.