2 Chronicles 18:1

“Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, etc.] Still more and more, (see <141705>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.”

“JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAB GO AGAINST RAMOTH-GILEAD. (2Ch. 18:1-34) after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria--This is word for word, the same as 1Ki. 22:1-53. (See commentary on that chapter). Next: 2 Chronicles Chapter 19”

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“With Ahab - For Joram's eldest son married Athaliah, Ahab's daughter. 2 Chronicles 18:4”

“18:1-2 Jehoshaphat’s alliance with Ahab led him to compromise his faithfulness to the Lord (see 19:2-3; cp. 2 Cor 6:14-18). The marriage of his son Jehoram (2 Chr 21:1) to Ahab’s daughter Athaliah (22:2) brought Israel’s apostasy into Judah (see 21:5-6, 12-13; 22:1-4).”

“am 3107, bc 897 riches: Ch2 1:11-15, Ch2 17:5, Ch2 17:12; Mat 6:33 joined affinity: He took Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, to be wife to his son Joram ( Kg2 8:18); which fatal connection was highly displeasing to God, and Jehoshaphat was severely reproved for it by Jehu the seer, Ch2 19:1-3. Ch2 18:31, Ch2 19:2, Ch2 21:6, Ch2 22:2, Ch2 22:3; Kg1 16:31-33, Kg1 21:25; Kg2 8:18, Kg2 8:26, Kg2 8:27, Kg2 11:1; Co2 6:14 2 Chronicles 18:2”

“Jehoshaphat's marriage alliance with Ahab, and his campaign with Ahab against the Syrians at Ramoth in Gilead. - Ch2 18:1. Jehoshaphat came into connection by marriage with Ahab through his son Joram taking Athaliah, a daughter of Ahab, to wife ( Ch2 21:6); an event which did not take place on the visit made by Jehoshaphat to Ahab in his palace at Samaria, and recorded in Ch2 18:2, but which had preceded that by about nine years. That visit falls in the beginning of the year in which Ahab was mortally wounded at Ramoth, and died, i.e., the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat's reign. But at that time Ahaziah, the son of Joram and Athaliah, was already from eight to nine years old, since thirteen…”