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2 Chron. 21:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

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A.M. 3116.

B.C. 888.

a writing."Which was writ before his assumption."

2 Kings 2:1• ¹And it came to pass when Jehovah would take up Elijah into the heavens by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. (2 Kings 2:1)

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Jer. 36:2,23,28‑32• ²Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
²³And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
²⁸Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
²⁹And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from it man and beast?
³⁰Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
³¹And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have not hearkened.
³²And Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Nerijah; and he wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words. (Jer. 36:2,23,28‑32)

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Ezek. 2:9‑10• ⁹And I looked, and behold, a hand was put forth toward me; and behold, a roll of a book therein.
¹⁰And he spread it out before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe. (Ezek. 2:9‑10)

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Dan. 5:5,25‑29• ⁵In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
²⁵And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
²⁶This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;
²⁷TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
²⁸PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
²⁹Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. (Dan. 5:5,25‑29)

Elijah the prophet.If the account of the translation of Elijah be given in the order in which it happened, then it occurred in the reign of Jehoshaphat, the father of Jehoram.

Hence, it is probable that he wrote it before his assumption, and left it to be delivered by Elisha or one of the prophets.

2 Kings 2:11• ¹¹And it came to pass as they went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire; and they parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into the heavens. (2 Kings 2:11)

in the ways of Jehoshaphat.

2 Chron. 17:3‑4• ³And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baals;
⁴but he sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. (2 Chron. 17:3‑4)

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1 Kings 22:43• ⁴³And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah. Only, the high places were not removed: the people offered and burned incense still on the high places. (1 Kings 22:43)

in the ways of Asa.

2 Chron. 14:2‑5• ²And Asa did what was good and right in the sight of Jehovah his God;
³and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;
⁴and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to practise the law and the commandment.
⁵And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him. (2 Chron. 14:2‑5)

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1 Kings 15:11• ¹¹And Asa did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, as David his father. (1 Kings 15:11)

• Elijah had watched the first acts of this reign of violence and had written against the king. This writing, preserved after the prophet's rapture, gets to Jehoram. (“Jehoram: 2 Chronicles 21” by H.L. Rossier)

• {v.12-15} The three facts enumerated by Elijah to justify God's judgment are: abandoning Jehovah, corruption, and violence — all that characterizes man's sin on account of which God had once destroyed the world by the flood. (“Jehoram: 2 Chronicles 21” by H.L. Rossier)

• Jehoram had chosen "the way of the kings of Israel"; he is condemned by a prophet of Israel, the only public witness who remained in the midst of the idolatry of the ten tribes and their king. (“Jehoram: 2 Chronicles 21” by H.L. Rossier)

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And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,