Commentaire sur Rois 1 22:48

There was no king in Edom. [Beginning with] the time of Dovid, the governor²²I.e., the governor that was appointed by the king of Yehudah.—Radak was the king. This was written here because in the days of Yehorom his son who sinned, in his days Edom rebelled and crowned a king for themselves, but in the time of Yehoshofot they were still subordinate to him.