I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 375

22--33 THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.--I. KINGS. 22-54_

33 3 4 35 37 39 This is the king of and they wheeled against him to tight. But jhoshafat cried out;·—-so when the commanders of the chariots discovered thathe was not the king of Israel they turned away from him. A man, however, drew a bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armour, when he said to his Turn your hand, and carry me from the Hght, for I am So he left the battle at once, yet the king was supported in the chariot facing Aram, but died in the afternoon, and his blood from his wound poured into the bottom of the chariot. When sunset came, the word was passed to the camp to order ‘each to his village, and each to his country)? and they brought the dead king to Shomerornwhere they buried the king. When the chariot was washed at

the pool in Shomeron, the dogs licked his blood, where the harlots washed themselves,——according to the word of the Evna—1.1vn~zG which He had spoken. But the rest of the aiiairs of Akhab,

and all he did, and the White Marble Palace he built, and all the towns he erected,·——they are written of in the history of the events of the times of the kings of Israel. When he slept with his fathers, Akhaziah his son reigned in his place. .c. 914.) Shuslyufat begins in reign nlxer inhah singin} ]hoshafat··ben-Asa began to reign

overjudah in the fourth year of Plkhab

42 king of Israel. jhoshafat was thirty- iive years old at his coronation, and

1 jhoshafat had previously ruled only as

Viee·oy, or Regent, for his sick father, Asa. 1_;_ he reigned twenty-five years in ]eru- salem, and his mother’s name was Azubah, daughter of Shibak. He walked in the path of Asa his father. He did not turn from doing right in the sight of the EvER·L1vlNG: except that he did not throw down the Columns. The people still sacrificed and offered incense at the Columns. jhoshafatalso was at peace with the king of Israel. For the rest of the adairs of ]hosha·

fat, and the great things he achieved, and how he fought;-they are re- corded in the history of events in the days of the kings of judah. How- ever, the remainder of the Sodomites, who escaped in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the country. There was no king in Edom; he appointed a king. jhoshafat built ships for Tharshish,

to go to Aufer for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked. at Atzion·gabar. Then Akhaziah son Let my servants and your servants go 43 45 47 49 but jhoshafat was not willing. When jhoshafat slept with his 51 fathers, he was buried with his an- cestors in the City of David, and ]’oram his son reigned after him. (ac. 897.) Qlizxginlr hegins te reign uhrr israel; Akhaziah-ben-Akhabbegan to reign 52 over Israel in Shomeron in the seven- teenth year of ]hoshafat_ king of judah, and he reigned over Israel- two years. »_ But he did wrong in the 53 eyes of the Evn1z—L1v1x~1c,and walked in the way of his father, andthe way of his mother, and in the way of ]‘erabam·ben-Nebat, who made Israel sin. For he servedBal, and wor- 54 , shipped hinnand provoked the Evan- uvme, the God of Israel, in all that his ancestors did. END or in-is Fmsr Book or frm; Monmzcmcar. Psmon.-——Boox V. or rue Hrsronv or ISRAEL. 375