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Take thy armour, and go into the battle, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.
put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel 41 But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to
changed his dress, and went into the battle. reign over Juda, in the fourth year of Acbab,
31 And the king of Syria had commanded the king of Israel.
two and thirty captains of the chariots, saying: 42 He was five and thirty years old when he
You shall not fight against any, small or great, began to reign, and he reigned five and twenty
but against the king of Israel only. years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was
32 So when the captains of the chariots saw Azuba, the daughter of Salai.
Josaphat, they suspected that he was the king of 43 And he walked in all the way of Asa, his
Israel, and making a violent assault, they fought father, and he declined not from it: and he did
against him: and Josaphat cried out. that which was right in the sight of the Lord.
33 And the captains of the chariots perceived 44 Nevertheless, he took not away the high
that he was not the king of Israel, and they places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and
turned away from him. burnt incense in the high places.
34 And a certain man bent his bow, shooting 45 And Josaphat had peace with the king of
at a venture, and chanced to strike the king of Israel.
Israel, between the lungs and the stomach. But 46 But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and
he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy his works which he did, and his battles, are they
hand, and carry me out of the army, for I am not written in the book of the words of the days
grievously wounded. of the kings of Juda?
35 And the battle was fought that day, and 47 And the remnant also of the effeminate,
the king of Israel stood in his chariot against who remained in the days of Asa, his father, he
the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the took out of the land.
blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the 48 And there was then no king appointed in
chariot. Edom.
36 And the herald proclaimed through all the 49 But king Josaphat made navies on the sea,
army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not
return to his own city, and to his own country. go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.
37 And the king died, and was carried into 50 Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to
Samaria: and they buried the king in Samaria. Josaphat: Let my servants go with thy servants
38 And they washed his chariot in the pool of in the ships. And Josaphat would not.
Samaria and the dogs licked up his blood, and 51 And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and
they washed the reins according to the word of was buried with them in the city of David, his
the Lord which he had spoken. father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead.
39 But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all 52 And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to
that he did, and the house of ivory that he made, reign over Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth
and all the cities that he built, are they not writ- year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he reigned
ten in the book of the words of the days of the over Israel two years.
kings of Israel? 53 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and
40 So Achab slept with his fathers; and walked in the way of his father and his mother,