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1 Kings 22:2

in 1 Kings 22

However, in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to visit the king of Israel,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

KJV

And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

This verse in 1 Kings 22

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
This visit indicates an entire change in the relations which we have hitherto found subsisting between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The common danger to which the two kingdoms were exposed from the growing power of Syria had probably induced them to forget their differences. Jehoshaphat’s eldest son, Jehoram, was married to Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab: but apparently the bond between the two families had not hitherto led to any very close intimacy, much less to any joint military expeditions.

This site's exposition

continued three years without war

on 1 Kings 22:1-2

The truce with Syria runs the three years Ahab's covenant with Ben-hadad bought him after chapter 20, and into it Jehoshaphat of Judah comes down to Samaria, the visit that opens the chapter's alliance. The two kingdoms that split at Jeroboam sit at peace with each other while both remain at odds with the Lord in different ways.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Came down, &c. - It is strange, that so good a man would be so closely connected with a king revolted from the worship of God! But he appears to have been of too easy a temper, which betrayed him to many inconveniencies.
And it came to pass in the third year,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This is a groundless tradition. He came now, it is probable, to consult him about the affairs of their kingdoms. It is strange that so great a man as Jehoshaphat would pay so much respect to a kingdom revolted from the house of David, and that so good a man should show so much kindness to a king revolted from the worship of God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

It led, however, to a visit by Jehoshaphat, whose reception in Samaria was distinguished by the most lavish hospitality (2Ch 18:2). The opportunity of this visit was taken advantage of, to push an object on which Ahab's heart was much set.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֖יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • בַּשָּׁנָ֣הin the year

    bashanahH8141877 times

  • הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑ית<the> third

    hashelishitH7992107 times

  • וַיֵּ֛רֶדand he went down

    vaiyeredH3381381 times

  • יְהוֹשָׁפָ֥טJehoshaphat

    yehoshafatH309284 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH44282525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 16:21

    From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must…

    it leads to

    • Luke 24:6–7

      He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:

    • Matthew 20:17–19

      As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said,

    • Matthew 17:22–23

      When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.

    • 1 Corinthians 15:3–4

      For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

    • Matthew 17:12

      But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him whatever they wished. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at…

  • Through

    1 Kings 15:24

    And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 1:8

      Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.

    • 1 Kings 22:41–43

      In the fourth year of Ahab’s reign over Israel, Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah.

  • Through

    2 Kings 8:18

    And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 8:26

      Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Death of Ahab — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Ahab — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.