2Ch 18:1, JEHOSHAPHAT HAD RICHES AND HONOR IN ABUNDANCE; AND BY MARRIAGE HE ALLIED HIMSELF WITH AHAB.
The LORD Blessed Jehoshaphat, YET he married Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel, the two most wicked ladies in all of scripture!
2Co 6:14, DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
2Ch 18:2, AFTER SOME YEARS HE WENT DOWN TO VISIT AHAB IN SAMARIA…
Ahab asked if he would fight with him against Ramoth Gilead!
2Ch 18:4-5, Also Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “PLEASE INQUIRE FOR THE WORD OF THE LORD TODAY.” Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, FOUR HUNDRED MEN, and said to them, “Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?” So they said, “GO UP, FOR GOD WILL DELIVER IT INTO THE KING’S HAND.”
Ahab didn’t want the truth, he wanted people to give him what he wanted to hear! Yet the king of Judah wanted to hear from GOD!
2Ch 18:6-7, …Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of Him?” So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man by WHOM WE MAY INQUIRE OF THE LORD; BUT I HATE HIM. because he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. HE IS MICAIAH the son of Imla.
What Ahab hated was the truth, but his real conflict was with GOD Himself! This alliance with Ahab almost got Jehoshaphat killed, but later his wife, Athaliah, would kill almost all his grandsons (2Ki 11:1)!
1Co 15:33, DO NOT BE DECEIVED: “EVIL COMPANY CORRUPTS GOOD HABITS.”
Pro 13:20, HE WHO WALKS WITH WISE MEN WILL BE WISE, BUT THE COMPANION OF FOOLS WILL BE DESTROYED.
Be careful who you allow in your life, and who you call friends! For you will either influence them OR THEY WILL INFLUENCE YOU!
Correction: JEHOSHAPHAT didn’t marry Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, but took Athaliah as wife for his son Jehoram, his first born son!