This document is about Jehoshaphat (King of Judah). For other homonyms, please refer to the Jehoshaphat document. [See Genealogy of the Kingdom of Judah] Jehoshaphat was the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah. Following his father King Asa, he did what was right in the eyes of God and enjoyed wealth and glory, but he became close to King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and entered into a marriage alliance. This had a negative impact on his later dynasty...
2 Chronicles 18:1After some years, he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead.
아합왕과 동맹하여 길르앗 라못을 공략하였으나 실패했다.
1 Kings 22:29The king of Israel) said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.1 Kings 22:30Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”1 Kings 22:31When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.1 Kings 22:32When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.1 Kings 22:33A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”1 Kings 22:34The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.1 Kings 22:35A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”1 Kings 22:36So the king died, and was brought to Samaria); and they buried the king in Samaria.
이후에 모압, 암몬, 세일 민족들이 동맹하여 침공해왔을 때에는 전혀 막을 방도가 없었으나, 하나님께 기도하자 자기들끼리 싸움이 일어나 모두 죽게 하였다.
2 Chronicles 20:1Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).
2 Chronicles 20:6Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?2 Chronicles 20:7They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,2 Chronicles 20:8‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’2 Chronicles 20:9Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;2 Chronicles 20:10behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.2 Chronicles 20:11Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”2 Chronicles 20:12All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
2 Chronicles 20:31He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.