He reigned for three years in Judah, and his mother’s name was Micaiah, the granddaughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was a war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
In addition he even deposed his grandmother Maacah as queen, because she had made an idol in a grove. Asa destroyed her idol and burned it by the Kidron brook.
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.