So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.
The matter in contest between God's prophet and Ahab's prophets is here soon determined, and it is made to appear which was in the right. Here, I. The two kings march with their forces to Ramoth-Gilead, Kg1 22:29. That the king of Israel, who hated God's prophet, should so far disbelieve his admonition as to persist in his resolution, notwithstanding, is not strange; but that...
Commenting on 1 Kings 22:29-40
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.
1Ki 22:29-40 The issue of the war, and death of Ahab. - 1Ki 22:29. Ahab, disregarding Micah’s prophecy, went on with the expedition, and was even joined by Jehoshaphat, of whom we should have thought that, after what had occurred, he at any rate would have drawn back.
Commenting on 1 Kings 22:29-40