Jehoshaphat ben Asa

Jehoshaphat ben Asa

Male 905 BC - 845 BC

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Jehoshaphat ben Asa was born in 905 BC (son of 3rd King of Judah Asa ben Abijah); died in 845 BC.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Notable Quote: 1 Chronicles
    • Religion: He suppressed idolatrous worship and in the third year of his reign Jehoshaphat sent out priests and Levites over the land to instruct the people in the Law
    • _MILT: Moabites formed a great and powerful confederacy with the surrounding nations, and marched against Jehoshaphat. The king prayed in the court of the Temple, "O our God, will you not judge them?" And his eneimes slew one another.
    • _ORDI: 36th great grandson of Adam and Eve

    Notes:

    Died:
    Soon after his victory Jehoshaphat died after a reign of twenty-five years at the age of sixty

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. King of Judah Joram ben Jehoshaphat was born in 882 BC; died in 842 BC.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  3rd King of Judah Asa ben Abijah (son of 2nd King of Judah Abijah ben Rehoboam); died in 911 BC.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Notable Quote: 1 Chronicles
    • Religion: Asa was zealous in maintaining the traditional worship of God, and in rooting out idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities
    • _MILT: After concluding a battle with Zerah of Egypt in the 10th year of his reign, there was peace in Judah
    • _ORDI: 35th great grandson of Adam and Eve

    Children:
    1. 1. Jehoshaphat ben Asa was born in 905 BC; died in 845 BC.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  2nd King of Judah Abijah ben Rehoboam (son of The 4th King of Israel, then the 1st King of Judah Rehoboam ben Solomon); died in 911 BC.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Notable Quote: 1 Chronicles
    • _MILT: He began his three-year reign with a strenuous but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten tribes of the northern Kingdom of Israel to their allegiance
    • _ORDI: 34th great grandson of Adam and Eve

    Children:
    1. 2. 3rd King of Judah Asa ben Abijah died in 911 BC.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  The 4th King of Israel, then the 1st King of Judah Rehoboam ben Solomon was born in 972 BC in Israel (son of King of Israel Solomon ben David and Naamah bat Hanun); died about 917 BC in Israel.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Notable Quote: 1 Chronicles
    • _MILT: Rehoboam went to war against the new Kingdom of Israel with a force of 180,000 soldiers. However, he was advised against fighting his brethren, and so, he returned to Jerusalem
    • _ORDI: 33rd great grandson of Adam and Eve

    Notes:

    Birth:
    (Jerusalem)

    Died:
    (Jerusalem)

    Children:
    1. 4. 2nd King of Judah Abijah ben Rehoboam died in 911 BC.