During his reign, the Judean court recorders were still using the non-accession system of measuring years that was adopted in the days of Jehoshaphat from the practice of the northern kingdom, whereby the king's first partial year in office was counted as his first year of reign.

Jehoshaphat requests that Ahab, “ Inquire first for the word of the Lord ” ( 1 Kings 22: 5 ).

Three years later, war broke out on the east of the Jordan River, and Ahab with Jehoshaphat of Judah went to recover Ramoth-Gilead.

Jehoshaphat took the throne at the age of thirty-five and reigned for twenty-five years.

Jehoram began to reign in Israel in the 18th year of Jehoshaphat of Judah, and reigned 12 years.

His long reign of about fifty-two years was " the most prosperous excepting that of Jehoshaphat since the time of Solomon.

An analysis of the data for Jeroboam II of Israel and Jehoshaphat of Judah, both of whom had coregencies, shows that their years were measured in this way.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

William F. Albright has dated the reign of Jehoshaphat to 873 – 849 BC.

In the third year of his reign Jehoshaphat sent out priests and Levites over the land to instruct the people in the Law (), an activity that was commanded for a Sabbatical year in Deuteronomy 31: 10-13.

* a prince of the southern kingdom of Judah during the reign of king Jehoshaphat ( 2 Chronicles )

Edwin Thiele placed a coregency of Jehoram with his father Jehoshaphat, starting in 853 / 852 BC, with the beginning of his sole reign occurring in 848 / 847 and his death in 841 / 840 BC.

The Lebor Gabála synchronises his reign with the deaths of Thineas and Decylas, kings of Assyria, and the reigns of David and Solomon in Israel ; the Laud Synchronisms with the Judean kings Asa and Jehoshaphat and the Assyrian king Pertiades ( Pyriatides ).

* 853 BC: The Battle of Qarqar in which Jerusalem's forces were likely involved in an indecisive battle against Shalmaneser III of Neo-Assyria ( Jehoshaphat of Judah was allied to Ahab of the Israel according to the Bible ).

The inscription seems to parallel an episode in: Jehoram of Israel makes an alliance with Jehoshaphat king of Judah and an unnamed king of Edom ( south of Judah ) to put down his rebellious vassal Mesha ; the three kings have the best of the campaign until Mesha, in desperation, sacrifices his eldest son ; the sacrifice turns the tide, " there came great wrath against Israel ", and Mesha is apparently left victorious.

Here, during the battle of Ramoth Gilead between Israel and Arameans, Ahab of Israel joined Jehoshaphat in the battle but was mortally wounded by an arrow and died ( 1 Kings 22: 1-36 ), he was propped up in his chariot facing his men but by evening, Ahab died and the Arameans won.

According to the bible, Jehoshaphat of Judah was allied to Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel at this time.

According to, in the fifth year of Joram of Israel, ( another ) Jehoram became king of Judah, when his father Jehoshaphat was ( still ) king of Judah, indicating a co-regency.

According to, Jehoram became king of Judah in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel, when his father Jehoshaphat was ( still ) king of Judah, indicating a co-regency.

Thiele attributed this change to the rapprochement between Judah and Israel, whereby Jehoshaphat, Jehoram's father, made common cause with Ahab at the battle of Ramoth-Gilead, and chose a daughter for his son from the house of Ahab ( 1 Kings 22: 1-38, 2 Kings 8: 18 ).

In 1 Kings 22: 3-4 the King of Israel ( identified later in the text as Ahab in 1 Kings 22: 20 ) goes to Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and asks if he will go with him to take over Ramoth-gilead which was under rule by the king of Aram.

According to Book of II Chronicles, Jehoshaphat, the King of Judah, joined with Ahaziah, the King of Israel, to make ships in Asiongaber ; but God disapproved the alliance, and the ships were broken in the port.

Jehoram of Judah (; ; ) was the king of the southern Kingdom of Judah, and the son of Jehoshaphat ().

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