31–34 (= 1 Kings xxii. 41–45).
The Summary of Jehoshaphat’s Reign.
There are several variations of text between Kings and Chronicles here; and in particular the Chronicler omits the statement that Jehoshaphat made peace with Israel.
³¹And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he 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.
31. reigned over Judah] In Kings, began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. The Chronicler will not date the accession of a southern king by the year of an ungodly northern king.
³²And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord.
32. of Asa his father] compare xvii. 3 (note).
³³Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
33. the high places] Precisely the contrary is asserted in xvii. 6, where see note. On the meaning of “high place” see the note on xv. 17.
neither as yet had the people set their hearts] compare xii. 14. In Kings it is said particularly that the people sacrificed and burnt incense at the high places.
³⁴Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history[¹] of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted[²] in the book of the kings of Israel.