1 Kings 22:46

_AND 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._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

41-50 Jehoshaphat's reign appears to have been one of the best, both as to piety and prosperity. He pleased God, and God blessed him....

Verse 46. _THE REMNANT OF THE SODOMITES_] הקדש _of the consecrated_ _persons_; or it may rather apply here to the _system_ of pollution, effeminacy, and debauch. He destroyed the thing itself; the abominations of Priapus, and the rites of Venus, Baal, and Ashtaroth. No more of that impure worship was to be found in Judea....

See the marginal references notes....

EXPOSITION THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH. 1 KINGS 22:1 AND THEY CONTINUED [rather, _rested_._ _Heb. _sate_, _dwelt_._ _Cf. Judges 5:17. The LXX. has ἐκάθισε, sing.] THREE YEARS WITHOUT WAR [The Hebrew explains the "rested"—_there was not war, _etc. See Ewald, 286 g

AND THE REMNANT OF THE SODOMITES, WHICH REMAINED IN THE DAYS OF HIS FATHER ASA, HE TOOK OUT OF THE LAND. His father Asa removed many of these filthy creatures, but not all; as many, no doubt, as came within his knowledge, but some remained, whom this his son removed, being of the same disposition with his father, see 1 Kings 15:12....

CHAPTER 22 THE DEATH OF AHAB _ 1. Jehoshaphat and Ahab (1 Kings 22:1)_ 2. The prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22:13) 3. The battle and Ahab's death (1 Kings 22:29) 4. Jehoshaphat of Judah (1 Kings 22:41; 1 Kings 2 Chron. 19-20) 5. Ahaziah, King of Israel (1 Kings 22:51) Three years passed without war between Syria and Israel. In the third year Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to Ahab. Jehoshaphat's son and heir-apparent ha

REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT OF JUDAH AND AHAZIAH OF ISRAEL, These reigns are related in the usual annalistic style. 1 Kings 22:47, which says there was no king in Edom, is very obscure. It seems to imply that Jehoshaphat owned Edom, and ruled by his own nominee, but in 2 Kings 3 we read of a king of Edom. 1 Kings 22:48. On Ophir and Ezion-geber, see 1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 9:28. The Chronicler (2 Chronicles 20:37) says that the ships were wrecked as a punishment for Jehoshaphat's alliance with the king of Israel. The book

SODOMITES. See note on 1 Kings 14:23; 1 Kings 14:24....

_And the remnant_, &c. This passage, down to the end of 1 Kings 22:49, is omitted by the (_Vat._) LXX. _which remained in the days of his father_ Asa had striven to put them down. See 1 Kings 15:12 above. _he took_[R.V. PUT AWAY] _out of the land_ -To put away" is by far the most frequent rendering of the verb. See concerning a similar proceeding 2 Kings 23:24....