Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 22:42
Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
42. He reigned twenty and five years ] His son and successor, Jehoram, was made king in conjunction with his father, before Jehoshaphat’s death (2Ki 9:16). But this could only have been done just at the close of Jehoshaphat’s reign. For it was in the fourth year of Ahab that Jehoshaphat began to reign. Ahab reigned 22 years (1Ki 16:29). So that 18 years of Jehoshaphat’s reign were over when Ahab died. Ahaziah reigned two years (see 1Ki 22:51 below) and it was in the 5th year of Joram, the brother and successor of Ahaziah, that Jehoshaphat joined his son with him in the kingdom. So that, unless the years are not complete years, it must have been in the closing years of his father’s reign that Jehoram began his joint reign.
his mother’s name ] On the important position occupied by the queen-mother in Oriental kingdoms, see on 1Ki 2:19. This accounts for the constant mention of her name at each king’s accession.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He reigned twenty and five years; part by himself and partly with his sons, whom he took into the fellowship of his kingdom; of which see more on 2Ki 1:17.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Jehoshaphat was thirty five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem,…. So that he must be sixty years of age when he died:
and his mother’s name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi; but of what family they were is not said.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1Ki 22:42 Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
Ver. 42. When he began to reign, ] i.e., When he was designed to reign in his father’s time. Compare 2Ch 22:2 .
And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.] He had the happiness – as afterwards also Timothy had – to come of a good mother, and good grandmother.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thirty and five: 2Ki 1:17, 2Ki 8:16
And his mother’s: 1Ki 14:21, 1Ki 15:2, 1Ki 15:10
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 22:42. Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old, &c. The intention of the writer of this book was principally to give us the history of the kings of the house of David, with which he begins, and then interweaves with it some account of the kings of Israel. Thus having finished the history of Asa, king of Judah, he recounts the affairs of Israel under Ahab; who being dead, he returns to the history of the kings of Judah, who were the chief objects of his attention.