KJV King James Version
[There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.
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1 Kings 22:47
[There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And there was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.
WEB World English Bible
There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
ASV American Standard Version
And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and there is no king in Edom; he set up a king.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 22
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
47 [There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.
48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
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2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.2 Samuel 8:14And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.2 Kings 8:20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.Genesis 27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.Genesis 25:23And the LORD said unto her, Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the younger.Psalm 108:9-10Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.Genesis 36:31-43And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
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