1 Kings 22:41

AN EVALUATION OF THE REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT

"And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah; howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel."

Jehoshaphat is here credited with being a righteous king, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, but this is not a blanket endorsement of everything that he did. His failure to close down the high places is mentioned specifically, and also his making peace with Ahab. "He was in almost all respects a godly man, his main mistake being that alliance with Ahab."[35]

"In these verses, the narrator returns to the history of the kingdom of Judah, giving a brief sketch of the reign of Jehoshaphat, which is more covered completely in 2 Chronicles 17-20."[36]