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Asa and Jehoshaphat
How Asa and Jehoshaphat are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Asa was a parent of Jehoshaphat.
Jehoshaphat was Asa's son and followed him on the throne of Judah. Kings says he walked in all the ways of Asa his father.
Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah
1 Kings 22:41, King James Version
he walked in all the ways of Asa his father
1 Kings 22:43, King James Version
Where they cross: 1 Kings 22:41-43
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
1 Kings 22:41-43
41And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
42Jehoshaphat 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.
43And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
King James Version