1 Kings 22:47 KJV

There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
1 Kings 22:47, King James Version

In context

46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion–geber.