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<p class="tab-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, <a class="bibleref" title="1Kgs.22.41-1Kgs.22.50" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.22.41-1Kgs.22.50">1 Kgs. 22:41-50</a> 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, <a class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.1" href="/passage/?search=2Chr.18.1">2 Chron. 18:1</a>. II. His consent to join with him in his expedition for the recovery of Ramoth-Gilead out of the hands of the Syrians, <a class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.2,2Chr.18.3" href="/passage/?search=2Chr.18.2,2Chr.18.3"><span class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.2">2 Chron. 18:2</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.3">3</span></a>. III. Their consulting with the prophets, false and true, before they went, <a class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.4-2Chr.18.27" href="/passage/?search=2Chr.18.4-2Chr.18.27">2 Chron. 18:4-27</a>. IV. The success of their expedition. Jehoshaphat hardly escaped (<a class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.28-2Chr.18.32" href="/passage/?search=2Chr.18.28-2Chr.18.32">2 Chron. 18:28-32</a>) and Ahab received his death’s wound, <a class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.33,2Chr.18.34" href="/passage/?search=2Chr.18.33,2Chr.18.34"><span class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.33">2 Chron. 18:33</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="2Chr.18.34">34</span></a>.</p>
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