(33) Then a man drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the plates of the armor and he said to his charioteer, “Turn around and get me behind the lines; I am wounded.” (34) The battle raged all day long, and the king remained propped up in the chariot facing Aram until dusk; he died as the sun was setting. (1) King Jehoshaphat of Judah returned safely to his palace, to Jerusalem.
(41) Jehoshaphat son of Asa had become king of Judah in the fourth year of King Ahab of Israel. (42) Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi. (43) He followed closely the course of his father Asa and did not deviate from it, doing what was pleasing to the LORD.
(44) However, the shrines did not cease to function; the people still sacrificed and offered at the shrines. (45) Additionally, Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. (46) As for the other events of Jehoshaphat’s reign and the valor he displayed in battle, they are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ( (47) He also stamped out the remaining male prostitutes who had survived in the land from the time of his father Asa.)
(12) He expelled the male prostitutes from the land, and he removed all the idols that his ancestors had made. (13) He also deposed his mother Maacah from the rank of queen mother, because she had made an abominable thing for [the goddess] Asherah. Asa cut down her abominable thing and burnt it in the Wadi Kidron. (14) The shrines, indeed, were not abolished; however, Asa was wholehearted with the LORD his God all his life.
(48) There was no king in Edom; a viceroy acted as king. (49) Jehoshaphat constructed Tarshish ships to sail to Ophir for gold. But he did not sail because the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
(50) Then Ahaziah son of Ahab proposed to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants sail on the ships with your servants”; but Jehoshaphat would not agree.
(2) Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet King Jehoshaphat and said to him, “Should one give aid to the wicked and befriend those who hate the LORD? For this, wrath is upon you from the LORD. (3) However, there is some good in you, for you have purged the land of the sacred posts and have dedicated yourself to worship God.”
(ד) ואל תתחבר לרשע מלמד שלא יתחבר אדם עם אדם רע ולא עם אדם רשע שכן מצינו ביהושפט שנתחבר באחאב ועלה עמו רמות גלעד ויצא עליו קצף (מאת) ה'
(4) Do not befriend the wicked. This teaches us that a person should not befriend a bad person, nor a wicked person. For so we find with Jehoshafat, that he befriended Ahab and went up with him to Ramot Gilad, and the Eternal’s rage came out upon him.
(4) Jehoshaphat remained in Jerusalem a while and then went out among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim; he brought them back to the LORD God of their fathers. (5) He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified towns of Judah, in each and every town. (6) He charged the judges: “Consider what you are doing, for you judge not on behalf of man, but on behalf of the LORD, and He is with you when you pass judgment. (7) Now let the dread of the LORD be upon you; act with care, for there is no injustice or favoritism or bribe-taking with the LORD our God.” (8) Jehoshaphat also appointed in Jerusalem some Levites and priests and heads of the clans of Israelites for rendering judgment in matters of the LORD, and for disputes. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
(ה) ד"א לא תגורו מפני איש - שמא תאמר מתיירא אני מפני איש פלוני שמא יהרוג את בני, או שמא ידליק את גדישי, או שמא יקצוץ את נטיעותי - ת"ל לא תגורו מפני איש:
(ו) וכן ביהושפט הוא אומר (דברי הימים ב יט) ויאמר לשופטים ראו מה אתם עשיתם, כי לא לאדם תשפוטו כי אם לה', כי המשפט לאלהים הוא:
(5) Variantly: "Do not fear any man": Lest you say: I am afraid of that man. He may kill my son, or burn my stacks, or cut down my plants; it is, therefore, written "Do not fear any man." "for the judgment is G-d's."
(6) And thus is it written of Yehoshafat (II Chronicles 19:6) "and he said to the judges: Take heed what you do, for you judge not for the man, but for the L-rd who is with you in the judgment."
(51) Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoram succeeded him as king. (52) [Meanwhile,] Ahaziah son of Ahab had become king of Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah; he reigned over Israel two years. (53) He did what was displeasing to the LORD, following in the footsteps of his father and his mother, and in those of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had caused Israel to sin. (54) He worshiped Baal and bowed down to him; he vexed the LORD, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.