2 Chronicles 20:31

Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

World English Bible
Learn

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign. He reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

BSB

So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

KJV

And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

ASV

And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

BBE

And Jehoshaphat was king over Judah: he was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for twenty-five years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

Original Hebrew

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

וַיִּמְלֹךְ vai·yim·lokh and he reigned H4427 יְהוֹשָׁפָט ye·ho·sha·fat Jehoshaphat H3092 עַל־ 'al- over H5921 יְהוּדָה ye·hu·dah Judah H3063 בֶּן־ ben- a son of H1121 שְׁלֹשִׁים she·lo·shim thirty H7970 וְחָמֵשׁ ve·cha·mesh and five H2568 שָׁנָה sha·nah year[s] H8141 בְּמָלְכוֹ be·ma·le·kho when became king he H4427 וְעֶשְׂרִים ve·'es·rim and twenty H6242 וְחָמֵשׁ ve·cha·mesh and five H2568 שָׁנָה sha·nah year[s] H8141 מָלַךְ ma·lakh he reigned H4427 בִּירוּשָׁלִַם bi·ru·sha·lim in Jerusalem H3389 וְשֵׁם ve·shem and [the] name of H8034 אִמּוֹ 'i·mo mother his H517 עֲזוּבָה 'a·zu·vah [was] Azubah H5806 בַּת־ bat- [the] daughter of H1323 שִׁלְחִי shil·chi Shilhi H7977

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 31–37

Jehoshaphat kept close to the worship of God, and did what he could to keep his people close to it. But after God had done such great things for him, given him not only victory, but wealth; after this, to go and join himself with a wicked king, was very ungrateful. What could he expect but that God would be angry with him? Yet it seems, he took the warning; for when Ahaziah afterward pressed him to join him, he would not, 1Ki 22:49. Thus the alliance was broken, and the Divine rebuke had its effect, at least for a season. Let us be thankful for any losses which may have prevented the loss of our immortal souls. Let us praise the Lord, who sought after us, and left us not to perish in our sins.

Read Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 20 →

Parallel passages

1

The same words or events elsewhere.

1 Kings 22:41–42

Cross-references

1

People & places

JehoshaphatAzubahShilhi Jerusalem

Topics

AzubahShilhi

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.