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JEHOSHAPHAT (Heb. " Yahweh judges ")

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 311 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JEHOSHAPHAT (Heb. " Yahweh judges ") , in the Bible, son of Asa, and king of Judah, in the 9th
century
  B.C. During his period close relations subsisted between
Israel
  and Judah; the two royal houses were connected by
marriage
  (see ATHALIAH; JEHORAM, 2), and undertook
joint
  enterprise in war and commerce. Jehoshaphat aided Ahab in the battle against Benhadad at Ramoth-
Gilead
  in which Ahab was slain (I Kings xxii.; 2 Chron. xviii.; cf. the parallel incident in 2 Kings viii. 2529), and trading journeys to Ophir were undertaken by his
fleet
  in conjunction no doubt with Ahab as well as with his son Ahaziah (2 Chron. xx. 35 sqq.; 1 Kings xxii. 47 sqq.). The chronicler's account of his war against Moab, Ammon and Edomite tribes (2 Chron, xx.), must rest ultimately upon a tradition which is presupposed in the earlier source (I Kings xxii. 47), and the disaster to the ships at Ezion-Geber at the head of the Gulf of Akaba preceded, if it was not the introduction to, the
great
  revolt in the days of Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram, where, again, the details in 2 Chron. xxi. must rely in the first instance upon an old source. Apart from what is said of Jehoshaphat's legislative
measures
  (2 Chron. xix. 4 sqq.; cf. the meaning of his name above), an account is preserved of his alliance with Jehoram of
Israel
  against Moab (2 Kings iii.), on which see JEHORAM; MOAB. The " valley of Jehoshaphat " (Joel iii. 12) has been identified by tradition (as old as
Eusebius
 ) with the valley between Jerusalem and the
mount
  of Olives. (S. A. C.)


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