1 Kings 22:47

THE MESSAGE

Edom was kingless during his reign; a deputy was in charge.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.

Hebrew Names Version
There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

King James Version
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

English Standard Version
There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

New Century Version
During this time the land of Edom had no king; it was ruled by a governor.

New English Translation
There was no king in Edom at this time; a governor ruled.

Amplified Bible
Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy (governor) was [serving as] king.

New American Standard Bible
Now there was no king in Edom; a governor served as king.

Geneva Bible (1587)
There was then no King in Edom: the deputie was King.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

Contemporary English Version
The country of Edom had no king at the time, so a lower official ruled the land.

Complete Jewish Bible
He rid the land of the male and female cult-prostitutes remaining from the time of his father Asa.

Darby Translation
And there was no king in Edom: a deputy reigned.

Easy-to-Read Version
In those days Edom did not have a king; it was ruled by a governor who was chosen by the king of Judah.

George Lamsa Translation
There was then no king who reigned in Edom.

Good News Translation
The land of Edom had no king; it was ruled by a deputy appointed by the king of Judah.

Lexham English Bible
There was not a king in Edom; a governor served as king.

Literal Translation
No king was in Edom; a deputy was king.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And at that tyme there were no kynges in Edom.

American Standard Version
And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

Bible in Basic English
At that time there was no king in Edom;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There was then no king in Edom, the deputie was king.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

King James Version (1611)
There was then no king in Edom: a deputie was king.

English Revised Version
And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

Berean Standard Bible
And there was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nethir a kyng was ordeyned thanne in Edom.

Young's Literal Translation
and there is no king in Edom; he set up a king.

Update Bible Version
And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

Webster's Bible Translation
[There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.

World English Bible
There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

New King James Version
There was then no king in Edom, only a deputy of the king.

New Living Translation
(There was no king in Edom at that time, only a deputy.)

New Life Bible
Now there was no king in Edom. A leader was acting as king.

New Revised Standard
There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, king, was there none in Edom, a prefect, was king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(22-48) And there was then no king appointed in Edom.

Revised Standard Version
There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

Contextual Overview

⁴¹Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king and he ruled for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother was Azubah daughter of Shilhi. He continued the kind of life characteristic of his father Asa—no detours, no dead ends—pleasing God with his life. But he failed to get rid of the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines. People continued to pray and worship at these idolatrous shrines. And he kept on good terms with the king of Israel. ⁴⁵The rest of Jehoshaphat's life, his achievements and his battles, is all written in The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah. Also, he got rid of the sacred prostitutes left over from the days of his father Asa. ⁴⁷ Edom was kingless during his reign; a deputy was in charge. ⁴⁸Jehoshaphat built ocean-going ships to sail to Ophir for gold. But they never made it; they shipwrecked at Ezion Geber. During that time Ahaziah son of Ahab proposed a joint shipping venture, but Jehoshaphat wouldn't go in with him. ⁵⁰ Then Jehoshaphat died and was buried in the family cemetery in the City of David his ancestor. Jehoram his son was the next king. ⁵¹Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. He ruled Israel for two years. As far as God was concerned, he lived an evil life, reproducing the bad life of his father and mother, repeating the pattern set down by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into a life of sin. Worshiping at the Baal shrines, he made God , the God of Israel, angry, oh, so angry. If anything, he was worse than his father.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

no king: Genesis 25:23, Genesis 27:40, Genesis 36:31-43, 2 Samuel 8:14, 2 Kings 3:9, 2 Kings 8:20, Psalms 108:9, Psalms 108:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:29 - be lord 2 Chronicles 21:8 - and made Romans 9:12 - The elder

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There was then no king in Edom, a deputy was king. Which had been the case from the times of David, who subdued Edom, and placed garrisons in it, and governors over it, 2 Samuel 8:14 and continued through the reign of Jehoshaphat, unto the times of his son, under whom the Edomites revolted, and set up a king of their own, 2 Kings 8:20, with a view to which this is observed, as also to account for it how Jehoshaphat could build ships in Eziongeber, which was in the land of Edom, of which in the next verse, because the whole country was governed by a viceroy, or deputy, under him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the time of Solomon, Hadad 1 Kings 11:14, according to the Septuagint, “reigned over Edom.” It appears by the present passage that the country had been again reduced either by Jehoshaphat, or by an earlier king, and was dependent on the kingdom of Judah, being governed by a “deputy” or viceroy, who, however, was allowed the royal title (compare 2 Kings 3:9, 2 Kings 3:12, 2 Kings 3:26). This government of dependencies by means of subject-kings was the all but universal practice in the East down to the time of Cyrus (the 1 Kings 4:21 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 47. There was no king in Edom — It is plain that the compiler of this book lived after the days of Jehoshaphat, in whose time the Edomites revolted; see 2 Kings 8:22. David had conquered the Edomites, and they continued to be governed by deputies, appointed by the kings of Judah, till they recovered their liberty, as above. This note is introduced by the writer to account for Jehoshaphat's building ships at Ezion-geber, which was in the territory of the Edomites, and which showed them to be at that time under the Jewish yoke.