2 Chronicles 18:1
And Iehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, but he was ioyned in affinitie with Ahab.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 21:25(But there was none like Ahab, who did fell him selfe, to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lord: whom Iezebel his wife prouoked.
1 Kings 22:45Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoshaphat, and his worthy deedes that he did, and his battels which he fought, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?
2 Kings 8:26Two and twentie yeere olde was Ahaziah when he began to reigne, and he reigned one yere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri King of Israel.
2 Chronicles 1:11And God sayde to Salomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, treasures nor honour, nor the liues of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life, but hast asked for thee wisdome and knowledge that thou mightest iudge my people, ouer whome I haue made thee King,
2 Chronicles 17:12So Iehoshaphat prospered and grewe vp on hie: and he built in Iudah palaces and cities of store.
2 Chronicles 19:2And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the Seer went out to meete him, and said to King Iehoshaphat, Wouldest thou helpe the wicked, and loue them that hate the Lord? therefore for this thing the wrath of the Lord is vpon thee.
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 →