KJV King James Version
Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
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1 Kings 22:49
Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
At that time Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants sail with your servants,” but Jehoshaphat refused.
WEB World English Bible
Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.
ASV American Standard Version
Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Then said Ahaziah son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, ‘Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships;’ and Jehoshaphat was not willing.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 22
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.
51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
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אָ֠זH227 · azthenאָמַ֞רH559 · a.marto sayאֲחַזְיָ֤הוּH274 · a.chaz.yahAhaziahבֶן־H1121 · benson: childאַחְאָב֙H256 · ach.avAhabאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)יְה֣וֹשָׁפָ֔טH3092 · ye.ho.sha.phatJehoshaphatיֵלְכ֧וּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentעֲבָדַ֛יH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveעִם־H5973 · imwithעֲבָדֶ֖יךָH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveבָּאֳנִיּ֑וֹתH591 · o.niy.yahfleetוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotאָבָ֖הH14 · a.vahbe willingיְהוֹשָׁפָֽט׃H3092 · ye.ho.sha.phatJehoshaphat
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