33. and the chariot commanders, seeing that he was not the king of Israel, turned away from him.
34. But someone drew his bow at random, and hit the king of Israel between the joints of his breastplate. He ordered his charioteer, “Rein about and take me out of the ranks, for I am wounded.”
35. The battle grew fierce during the day, and the king, who was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans, died in the evening. The blood from his wound flowed to the bottom of the chariot.
36. At sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, every man to his land!”
37. And so the king died, and came back to Samaria, and they buried him there.
38. When they washed out the chariot at the pool of Samaria, the dogs licked up his blood and prostitutes bathed there, as the Lord had prophesied.
39. The rest of the acts of Ahab, with all that he did, including the ivory house he built and all the cities he built, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
40. Ahab rested with his ancestors, and his son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.
41. Jehoshaphat, son of Asa, became king of Judah in the fourth year of Ahab, king of Israel.
42. Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah, daughter of Shilhi.
43. He walked in the way of Asa his father unceasingly, doing what was right in the Lord’s sight.
44. Nevertheless, the high places did not disappear, and the people still sacrificed on the high places and burned incense there.
45. Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.
46. The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, with his valor, what he did and how he fought, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
47. He removed from the land the rest of the pagan priests who had remained in the reign of Asa his father.
48. There was no king in Edom, but an appointed regent.