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1 Kings 22:47
“There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 22
45
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46
The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
47
There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
49
Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat would not.
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