And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
(And the king of Israel said unto his servants,.... His nobles, those of his privy council, his ministers of state; or "had said" (n), some little time before Jehoshaphat came:
know ye that Ramoth…
Barnes' Notes
This visit indicates an entire change in the relations which we have hitherto found subsisting between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The common danger to which the two kingdoms were exposed from…
Though Ahab continued under guilt and wrath, and the dominion of the lusts to which he had sold himself, yet, as a reward for his professions of repentance and humiliation, though the time drew near…
Cambridge Bible
Jehoshaphat … came down to the king of Israel The writer speaks as though Jerusalem was still regarded as the capital-city of the whole nation. To leave it and go elsewhere was -to go down."
The…
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