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Ahab and Jehoshaphat
How Ahab and Jehoshaphat are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Ahab and Jehoshaphat stood together.
Jehoshaphat of Judah joined affinity with Ahab and went with him to war at Ramoth-gilead. On his return a seer rebuked him for helping the ungodly.
joined affinity with Ahab
2 Chronicles 18:1, King James Version
I am as thou art, and my people as thy people
2 Chronicles 18:3, King James Version
Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord?
2 Chronicles 19:2, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Chronicles 18:1-3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
2 Chronicles 18:1-3
1Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
2And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.
3And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
2 Chronicles 19:2
2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.
King James Version