37. Once the king had died, people came from Samaria and buried the king there.
38. They cleaned the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up the king’s blood and the prostitutes bathed in it, just as the Lord had spoken.
39. The rest of Ahab’s deeds and all that he did—including the ivory palace he built and all the towns he constructed—aren’t they written in the official records of Israel’s kings?
40. Ahab lay down with his ancestors. His son Ahaziah succeeded him as king.
41. Jehoshaphat, Asa’s son, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Israel’s King Ahab.
42. Jehoshaphat was 35 years old when he became king, and he ruled for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah; she was Shilhi’s daughter.
43. Jehoshapat walked in all the ways of his father Asa, not deviating from it. He did the right things in the Lord’s eyes, with the exception that he didn’t remove the shrines. The people continued to sacrifice and offer incense at them.
44. Jehoshaphat made peace with Israel’s king.
45. The rest of Jehoshaphat’s deeds, the great acts he did, and how he fought in battle, aren’t they written in the official records of Judah’s kings?
46. Additionally, Jehoshaphat purged the land of the consecrated workers who remained from the days of Asa.
47. Now Edom had no king; only a deputy was ruler.
48. Jehoshaphat built Tarshish-styled ships to go to Ophir for gold. But the fleet didn’t go because it was wrecked at Ezion-geber.
49. Then Ahaziah, Ahab’s son, said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my sailors go with your sailors on the ships." But Jehoshaphat didn’t agree to this.