1 Kings 22:49

47 ^aThere was then no king in Edom, only a deputy of the king.

48 ^aJehoshaphat ^bmade merchant ships to go to ^cOphir for gold; ^dbut they never sailed, for the ships were wrecked at ^eEzion Geber.

49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.

50 And ^aJehoshaphat rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. Then Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

Ahaziah Reigns in Israel

51 ^aAhaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

52 He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and ^awalked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin;

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II Chronicles 20:35-36, explains that the two kings conjointly built the fleet with which the Ophir trade (I Kings 9:28 note) was to be re-opened. Ahaziah had thus an interest in the ships; and when they were wrecked, attributing, as it would seem, the calamity to the unskillfulness of his ally' s mariners, he proposed that the fleet should be manned in part by Israelite sailors - men probably accustomed to the sea, perhaps trained at Tyre. This proposal Jehoshaphat refused, either offended at the reflection on his subjects' skill, or accepting the wreck of the ships, which Eliezer had prophesied, as a proof that God was against the entire undertaking.

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