📌Jehoshaphat (son of Shimrith)

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This document is about Jehoshaphat (son of Shimrith). For other homonyms, please refer to the Jehoshaphat document.

He was one of the leaders of the group that rebelled and killed Joash during the time of Joash (King of Judah).

2 Chr 24:25When Joash was severely wounded, and the enemy had left him, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and they struck him down on his bed, and he died. They buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.2 Chr 24:26The conspirators were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite woman, and Jehoshaphat the son of Shimrith the Moabite woman.

In other Bibles, he is called Jehoshaphat.

2 Kgs 12:21The servants who struck him down were Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehosabad the son of Shomer. He was buried with his ancestors in the City of David, and his son Amaziah succeeded him as king.

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