Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Green's Literal Translation

1 Kings 4:17

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaan;   Commissary;   Jehoshaphat;   King;   Officer;   Paruah;   Purveyor;   Rulers;   Solomon;   Tax;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Issachar, the Tribe of;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Paruah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Paruah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Book(s);   Economic Life;   Jehoshaphat;   King, Kingship;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Occupations and Professions in the Bible;   Paruah;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Israel;   Jehoshaphat;   Paruah;   Solomon;   Tribute, Toll, Taxing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat ;   Paruah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Paruah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jehosh'aphat;   Par'uah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jehoshaphat (1);   Paruah;   Tabor, Mount;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Pottery;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshafat the son of Paru'ach, in Yissakhar;
King James Version
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
English Standard Version
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
New Century Version
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah was governor of Issachar.
New English Translation
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah was in charge of Issachar.
Amplified Bible
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in [the tribe of] Issachar;
New American Standard Bible
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Iehoshaphat the sonne of Paruah in Issachar.
Legacy Standard Bible
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Contemporary English Version
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah was in charge of the territory of Issachar.
Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoshafat the son of Paruach, in Yissakhar;
Darby Translation
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah was governor of Issachar.
George Lamsa Translation
Jehoshaphat the son of Paroh, in Issachar;
Good News Translation
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah: the territory of Issachar
Lexham English Bible
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iosaphat the sonne of Paruha in Isachar.
American Standard Version
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Bible in Basic English
Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iehosaphat the sonne of Paruah was in Isachar.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
King James Version (1611)
Iehoshaphat the sonne of Paruah in Issachar:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Josaphat son of Phuasud was in Issachar.
English Revised Version
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
Berean Standard Bible
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Josephat, sone of Pharue, was in Ysachar; Semey, sone of Hela, was in Beniamyn;
Young's Literal Translation
Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah [is] in Issachar.
Update Bible Version
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Webster's Bible Translation
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
World English Bible
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
New King James Version
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
New Living Translation
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar.
New Life Bible
And there was Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar,
New Revised Standard
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar.
Revised Standard Version
Jehosh'aphat the son of Paru'ah, in Is'sachar;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

Contextual Overview

1 And King Solomon was king over all Israel. 2 And these were the rulers he had: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest. 3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, were the scribes, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder. 4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar were priests. 5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers. And Zabud the son of Nathan was the minister and friend of the king. 6 And Ahishar was over the household. And Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor. 7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel. And they sustained the king and his household. Each man had one month in the year to provide. 8 And these are their names: Ben-hur in the hills of Ephraim; 9 the son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; 10 the son of Hesed, in Aruboth (to him was Sochoh and all the land of Hepher);

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Issachar: Joshua 19:17-23

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 5:18
And Jared lived one hundred and sixty two years and fathered Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah. And he fathered sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower with its head in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered on the face of all the earth.
2 Samuel 18:18
And during his lifetime Absalom had taken and set up for himself a standing-pillar, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, I have no son to cause my name to be remembered. And he called the standing pillar by his name and it is calledAbsalom's Monument to this day.
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses shall last forever, their dwelling-places to all generations; they call lands after their own names.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar. In the tribe of Issachar; he had the whole tribe at his command to make a monthly provision out of for the king once a year, as had the preceding officer and the following one.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile