2 Chronicles 18:1
Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and was joined by affinity to Achab.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 21:25Now there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife Jezabel set him on,
1 Kings 22:45And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:26Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 1:11And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the lives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked wisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have made thee king,
2 Chronicles 17:12And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in Juda houses like towers, and walled cities.
2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 18:1
The story of this chapter we had just as it is here related in the story of the reign of Ahab king of Israel, 1 Kings xxii. There it looks more creditable to Ahab than any thing else recorded of him that he was in league with so good a man as Jehoshaphat; here it is a great blemish in the reign of Jehoshaphat that he thus connected himself with so bad a man as Ahab. Here is, I. The alliance he contracted himself with Ahab, ver. 1 . II. His consent to join with him in his expedition for the recovery of… Read the whole commentary →