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Strong's #3092 - יְהוֹשָׁפָט
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- Jehoshaphat = "Jehovah has judged"
- n pr m
- son of king Asa and himself king of Judah for 25 years; one of the best, most pious, and prosperous kings of Judah
- son of Nimshi and father of king Jehu of the northern kingdom of Israel
- son of Ahilud and chronicler under David and Solomon
- son of Paruah and one of the 12 commissary officers under Solomon
- a priest and trumpeter in the time of David
- n pr loc
- symbolical name of a valley near Jerusalem which is the place of ultimate judgment; maybe the deep ravine which separates Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives through which the Kidron flowed
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1׳יְהוֺ (so all except
5 &
6) king of Judah, son of Asa 1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings 22:2 21t. 1Kings; 2 Kings 1:17; 2 Kings 3:1,7,11,12 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 3:14; 2 Kings 8:16 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 12:19; 1 Chronicles 3:10; 2 Chronicles 17:1 40t. 2Chronicles.
2 father of Jehu king of Israel 2 Kings 9:2,14.
3 chronicler under David & Song of Solomon , son of Ahilud 2 Samuel 8:16; 1 Kings 4:3; 1 Chronicles 18:15; also 2 Samuel 20:24 (ᵐ5 L Σαφαν).
4 one of Solomon's 12officers who provided victuals for the royal household 1 Kings 4:17 (ᵐ5 L Ἰωασαφατ).
5׳יוֺ one of David's heroes 1 Chronicles 11:43.
6 ׳יוֺ a priest & trumpeter in David's time 1 Chronicles 15:24.
7 in
proper name, of a locationעֵמֶק יְהוֺשָׁפָט Joel 1Chronicles 4:2,12, symbolical name of a valley near Jerusalem, place of ultimate judgement.
יְהוֹשָׁפָט (“whom Jehovah judges,” i.e. whose cause he pleads), Jehoshaphat
(1) king of Judah, 914-889 B. C., son of Asa, -1 Ki. 22:4151, from whom the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives received its name [“although that is not expressly stated”], Joel 4:2, 12 Joe 4:12 2Ch 20:1-37.
(2) the recorder of king David, 2 Samuel 8:16, 20:24.
(3) 1 Kings 4:17.
(4) 2 Kings 9:2, 14 2 Kings 9:14.