1-Kings - 4:17



17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Kings 4:17.

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Josaphat the son of Pharue, in Issachar.
Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah is in Issachar.

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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in (e) Issachar:
(e) Solomon did not observe the division that Joshua made, but divided it as might best serve his purposes.

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar. In the tribe of Issachar; he had the whole tribe at his command to make a monthly provision out of for the king once a year, as had the preceding officer and the following one.

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruach, in Issachar; i.e., over the whole of the territory of that tribe in the plain of Jezreel, with the exception of the cities of Taanach, Megiddo, and Bethshean, which were in the southern portion of it, and were allotted to the Manassites, and, according to 1-Kings 4:12, were put under the care of Baanah; and not merely in the northern part of Issachar, "with the exception of the plain of Jezreel," as Thenius erroneously maintains. Zebulun may possibly have also formed part of his district, if not entirely, yet in its southern portion, provided that the northern portion was assigned to Ahimaaz in Naphtali, since Zebulun had no prefect of its own.

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