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1 Re 22:2
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Ma il terzo anno Giosafat, re di Giuda, scese a trovare il re dIsraele.
Ma l’anno terzo, essendo Giosafat, re di Giuda, sceso al re d’Israele,
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 3107, bc 897
in the third: 1 Kings 22:1, Matthew 12:40, Matthew 16:21
Jehoshaphat: 1 Kings 22:41, 1 Kings 22:44, 1 Kings 15:24, 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Chronicles 18:1, 2-27
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:29 - General 2 Chronicles 18:2 - he went Matthew 1:8 - Josaphat
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass in the third year,.... Of the peace, before it was expired:
that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel; to Ahab, from Jerusalem to Samaria, reckoned thirty two miles m; either to make peace with him, and put an end to the wars which subsisted between Israel and Judah since the division of the kingdom, 1 Kings 22:44 or to contract an affinity with him, by marrying his son to a daughter of Ahab, 2 Kings 8:18 or rather after peace was made, and that strengthened by the marriage; and so he went merely to pay a visit, as he judged he might then with great safety; and he and all his retinue were entertained by Ahab in a very sumptuous and liberal manner, 2 Chronicles 18:1.
m Bunting's Travels, &c. p. 178. near 40, Rainold. Praelect. 31. col. 266.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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. Jehoshaphatâs 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. Jehoshaphat seems to have taken no part in the former Syrian wars of Ahab, nor did he join in the great league against the Assyrians (1 Kings 22:1 note). His visit now was probably one of mere friendliness, without any political object. Ahab, however, turned the visit to political advantage. From this time until the displacement of Ahabâs dynasty by Jehu, very intimate relations subsisted between the two kingdoms (1 Kings 22:49; 2 Kings 3:7; 2 Kings 8:28-29; 2 Chronicles 20:36, etc.).
