Person Old Testament
Jehoshaphat
Jehoshaphat, son of Paruah, was one of Solomon's twelve officers responsible for providing food for the king and his household. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Kings 4:17.
Why it matters. Solomon's officer, son of Paruah.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Jehoshaphat
Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, was one of the twelve officers appointed by King Solomon to oversee the provision of food for the king and his household. Each officer was responsible for supplying provisions for one month of the year. Jehoshaphat's district was Issachar.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Paruah
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
1 Kings (1 verse)