36. And at the going down of the sun there went a proclamation throughout the camp, saying, Every man to his city and every man to his own land.
37. So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.
38. And they washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria, and they also washed his armour; {Heb. fornications}; and the dogs licked up his blood, according unto the word of the Lord which he had spoken.
39. Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
40. So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah, his son, reigned in his stead.
41. And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab, king of Israel.
42. Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
43. 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.
44. And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat and his might that he showed and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46. And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes, which had remained from the days of his father Asa, he consumed out of the land.
47. There was then no king in Edom; there was a president instead of a king.
48. Jehoshaphat had made ships in Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.