Person Old Testament
Paruah
Paruah, the father of Jehoshaphat, who was one of Solomon's twelve district governors. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Kings 4:17.
Why it matters. Father of one of Solomon's district governors
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Paruah
Paruah was the father of Jehoshaphat, who served as one of the twelve district governors under King Solomon, according to 1Ki.4.17. Each governor was responsible for providing provisions for the royal household for one month of the year. Jehoshaphat son of Paruah was assigned to the hill country of Ephraim.
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.
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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)