Jehoshaphat [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.
Ver. 42. When he began to reign,] i.e., When he was designed to reign in his father's time. Compare 2 Chronicles 22:2 .
And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.] He had the happiness - as afterwards also Timothy had - to come of a good mother, and good grandmother.