PREVIOUS CHAPTER - NEXT CHAPTER - HELP - GR VIDEOS - GR YOUTUBE - TWITTER - SD1 YOUTUBE Ver. 1 . Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance , etc.] Still more and more, (see 2 Chronicles 17:5), and which moved Ahab to desire friendship and affinity with him, to which Jehoshaphat agreed: and joined affinity with Ahab ; king of Israel, married his son Joram to Athaliah, a daughter of Ahab by Jezebel of Zidon; which marriage proved of bad consequence to Jehoshaphat and his family. Ver. 2 . And after certain years , etc.] Two years, according to the Syriac and Arabic versions, or in the third year after the affinity was contracted, (see 1 Kings 22:2), he went down to Ahab to Samaria ; to pay him a visit upon the alliance, civil and matrimonial, contracted between them: and Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him ; entertained him and his retinue in a very grand and liberal manner: and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead ; from hence, to the end of the chapter, it is the same with ( 1 Kings 22:4-37). GOTO NEXT CHAPTER - JOHN GILL INDEX & SEARCH
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