2 Chronicles 20:34 - Exposition

The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat , etc. These "acts of Jehoshaphat" are said in this verse to find their record in the book of Jehu … mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel . The parallel has, "in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah." For our "mentioned," note margin, literal, made to ascend and Revised Version "inserted." The "book of the kings of Israel" may (note also the remarkable apparent misnomers of our writer, as illustrated by 2 Chronicles 12:6 ; 2 Chronicles 21:2 , 2 Chronicles 21:4 ) very possibly be one with the parallel, "book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah". Of this larger collected cyclopaedia of royal biography, Jehu's account ( דִּבְרֵי ) of Jehoshaphat was one component part. Though Jehu's ( דִבְרֵי ) book is not mentioned elsewhere, he himself is particularly in 1 Kings 16:1 , as well as in our 1 Kings 19:2 .