Talk:Jehoshaphat

Is there any evidence for any of this?
Is there any actual evidence to corroborate the biblical accounts of Jehoshaphat's existence, let alone his exploits? Since when does Wikipedia accept the bible as an accurate historical source? It certainly doesn't vis-a-vis Genesis and the Flood.

I think this article needs to be rewritten using language like "According to the bible" or "According to Judeo-Christian mythology". If there are no other sources corroborating Jehoshaphat's existence and exploits, that fact should be made explicit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.5.115 (talk) 13:26, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Albright Dating
This is in the Omri article: "William F. Albright has dated his reign to 876 – 869 BC". It clashes with Albright's dating as given in this article, but both are sourced. What's the story behind this? This isn't exactly my area of expertise, but perhaps it should be mentioned in the article if Albright changed his dating. --86.40.24.237 (talk) 16:07, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Why is this name spelled with a 'j'?
can anyone tell me why this word is spelled with a J? Kljenni 23:56, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Why not? So do Jesus and Jehovah. It is common in transliteration to change י (yod) to "j". In many European languages "j" still retains a 'y' sound. Khirad 14:38, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

American Culture
Jehoshaphat was a king of Judah. I wonder the name seems famous in American culture which is why his name is occaisionally mentoned? 124.107.237.135 07:00, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Isaac Asimov? 129.237.189.53 16:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, this may seem trivial, like a joke, but shouldn't some mention be made on the origins of the American expression "jumpin' Jehosaphat"? I agree with anonymous user. Put something in on the origin of this historical phrase. Khirad 14:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it is obscure and not worthy content for an article on the character. At most, include a link to a wiki article on the origins of colloquial exclamations, at the bottom of the article, but even that is too much IMO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.104.160.40 (talk) 17:03, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I think it's obscure but still in use. Enough to warrant a mention and maybe an indepth on the jumping skills of the king. Illustir (talk) 20:20, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Why is that too much? I actually came to this page looking for information on both the person and the expression. The whole idea of a html reference work like wikipedia is surely to link such facts/88.105.96.195 (talk) 03:31, 15 January 2009 (UTC)TheDixieFlatline

I too would appreciate an answer. I've just been reading Asimov novels and wondering why the name is used as a curse. I remember it in some older American series too. If it is really connected to this king, I think it should be explained in the article. 43.244.33.36 (talk) 11:24, 12 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Unsigned commentator above states: "No, it is obscure and not worthy content for an article on the character." Actually, to most people, the character is obscure and the expression "Jumping Jehosaphat" is not. Jmdeur (talk) 18:41, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

The name reference in the name is missing!
I'm shocked to see this blatant omission of the name of the god of the Bible referred to the the meaning of the name. I will correct this oversight GabrielVelasquez (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Reqeusted move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was page moved GTBacchus(talk) 16:48, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Jehoshaphat (king) → Jehoshaphat — This article needs to go back to primary usage - many incoming links, none of which were sorted out by the editor who moved this page and created a dab page after creating a stub article for another Jehoshaphat who does not appear to be a major usage of the name. PamD (talk) 11:52, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Question about references in Reign
I wonder if perhaps the references in the Reign section are wrong. The article states this:

" The Bible lauds the king for the repression of homosexuality, and for destroying the cult images or "idols" of Baal in the land ."

1 Kings 22:46 state, "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?" I don't see anything in there about homosexuality (as the article states now) or prostitution (as it stated in the prior edit).

1 Kings 22:43 states, "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 the LORD[.]"  I don't see anything in there about Baal or other cult images.

So it seems to me that either those Biblical references are wrong, or the article text itself is wrong. But I don't have enough knowledge to make any changes on my own other than a pure deletion, which I'd prefer not to do. Can I get comments from other editors? Qwyrxian (talk) 23:53, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * With no comments thus far, I'm going to go ahead and change those Biblical citations to a cite needed tag; hopefully this will prod someone into correcting the information in some way (either with other sources, a clearer verse link, or something else). Qwyrxian (talk) 01:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * While editing, I noticed that the problem with the first part wasn't that it wasn't there, but that the verse was wrong; I changed that reference to verse 47 ("And the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land."). I can't find anything nearby for Baal, though; perhaps the details are in Chronicles somewhere. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:01, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Extensive vandalism
I'm not familiar with how prior versions are reverted to, but they are needed here. Please read the first paragraph or so. There's a lot of vandalism here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.83.221.53 (talk) 15:51, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

point missing about alliance with Ahaziah?
2 Chronicles 20:35-37 makes the point that this alliance was disapproved of by God and this ships bound for Tarshish were caused to wreck.Halconen (talk) 00:03, 26 November 2012 (UTC)