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Jehoshaphat (/ dʒ ə ˈ h ɒ ʃ ə f æ t /; alternatively spelled Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; Hebrew: יְהוֹשָׁפָט, Modern: Yəhōšafaṭ, Tiberian: Yŏhōšāp̄āṭ, "Yahweh has judged"; [1] Greek: Ἰωσαφάτ, romanized: Iosafát; Latin: Josaphat), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Asa, and the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, in succession to his ...
However, the historian Josephus does not mention a Jehoshaphat, [1] and according to his account, the second High Priest after Joram (the chronological place of Jehoshaphat) was Pediah. Nor is a high priest named Jehoshaphat mentioned in the list of the Zadokite dynasty in 1 Chronicles 5:30–40 (6:4-15 in some translations) or elsewhere in the ...
The story of Josaphat and Barlaam also occupies a great part of book xv of the Speculum Historiale (Mirror of History) by the 13th century French encyclopedist Vincent of Beauvais. One of the Marco Polo manuscripts notes the remarkable similarity between the tale of "Sakyamuni Burkham" (the name that Polo uses for the Buddha ) and St. Josaphat ...
According to McFall's revision of Thiele's chronology, the phrase "second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah" in 2 Kings 1:17 is the period of "co-regency" on the throne of Judah with his father Jehoshaphat, [10] who was then in his 18th year of sole reign as noted in 2 Kings 3:1.
He was the 12th king of Israel and reigned for 16 years. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 801–786 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 798–782 BC. [ 5 ] When he ascended the throne, the Kingdom of Israel was suffering from the predations of the Arameans , whose king Hazael was conquering land controlled by Israel.
Jehoshaphat returned safely, but Jehu rebuked him for helping the wicked king Ahab. He went on to say that nevertheless the Lord found good in the king, as he had removed the Asherah poles from the land and set his heart to seek God.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; The World English Bible translates the passage as: Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah. For a collection of other versions see BibleHub ...
A leaf from the 1466 manuscript of the Antiquitates Iudaice, National Library of Poland. Antiquities of the Jews (Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae; Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Domitian, which was 94 CE. [1]