V.1 As we have often mentioned, when things go well for the believer, he is in very great danger, because he grows careless. You remember wicked king Ahab! What a foolish thing to become close friends with him.
V.2-3 Jehoshaphat forgot what his great, great grandfather Solomon had said (Prov. 1:1010My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. (Proverbs 1:10)).
V.4 A foolish suggestion to make to a man who killed the Lord’s prophets.
V.5 These were men who worshipped idols!
V.8-27 The dreadful treatment of this faithful man.
V.27 He says to the king something like this, “If you live to see what you say is going to happen, then the Lord’s Word which I have spoken, is not true”!
V.28-34 Whose word came true?