3 others in the registry answer to the name Jehoshaphat. Every Jehoshaphat in the Bible
person
Jehoshaphat
יְהוֹשָׁפָטἸωσαφάτ

- verses
- 67
- first named
- 1 Kings 15:24
- last named
- Matthew 1:8
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Jehoshaphat?
Jehoshaphat was the son of Asa and became king of Judah at the age of 35. He reigned for 25 years in Jerusalem. Jehoshaphat did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father Asa. He removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah and sent officials to teach the Book of the Law throughout the land. Jehoshaphat became very wealthy and held great honor. He allied himself with Ahab, king of Israel, through marriage and military campaigns. After a prophet rebuked him for helping the wicked Ahab, Jehoshaphat continued to seek the Lord. When faced with a vast army of Moabites, Ammonites, and Meunites, Jehoshaphat prayed for deliverance, and the Lord caused the enemy forces to destroy each other. He enjoyed peace for the remainder of his reign. Jehoshaphat died and was buried in the City of David, and his son Jehoram succeeded him as king.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 20 are drawn. All 20 are listed below.
Child of
Father of
- Azariahregistry, no verse
- Azariahuregistry, no verse
- Jehielregistry, no verse
- Jehoramregistry1 Chronicles 3:112 Chronicles 21:1Matthew 1:8 +2
- Michaelregistry, no verse
- Shephatiahregistry, no verse
- Zechariahregistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
- Ahab10 events
- Judah9 events
- Jerusalem7 events
- Asa4 events
- Ramoth4 events
- Jehoram4 events
- Joram4 events
- Samaria3 events
- Moab2 events
- War2 events
- Ahaziah2 events
- Israel1 event
and 51 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Jehoshaphat is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
67 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (19), 2 Kings (8), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (38) and Matthew (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 67, across 5 books. The name is written 77 times in them.
1 Kings19 verses
15:2422:222:422:522:722:822:1022:1822:2922:3022:3222:4122:4222:4422:4522:4822:4922:5022:51
2 Kings8 verses
1 Chronicles1 verse
2 Chronicles38 verses
17:117:317:517:1017:1117:1218:118:318:418:618:718:918:1718:2818:2918:3119:119:219:419:820:120:220:320:520:1520:1820:2020:2520:2720:3020:3120:3420:3520:3721:121:221:1222:9
Matthew1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 1 Kings 22Jehoshaphat joined Ahab’s campaign, asked for the word of the LORD, and later ruled Judah for twenty-five years.
- 2 Kings 3Jehoshaphat joined Jehoram, asked for a prophet, and went down to Elisha.
- 2 Chronicles 17Jehoshaphat strengthened Judah, removed its high places and Asherah poles, sent teachers through the land, received tribute, built fortresses, and commanded a great host.
- 2 Chronicles 18Jehoshaphat joined Ahab’s campaign, asked for the word of the LORD, and was mistaken for Ahab until the LORD drew the chariot commanders away.
- 2 Chronicles 19Jehoshaphat returned to Jerusalem, turned the people back to the LORD, and appointed judges and officers throughout the land.
- 2 Chronicles 20Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast, prayed before Judah, sent singers before the army, and later allied himself with Ahaziah.
- 2 Chronicles 21Jehoshaphat gave his sons gifts and fortified cities, but reserved the kingdom for Jehoram as his firstborn.
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