v. 6 Here we see the fruits of Jehoshaphat’s marriage alliance with Ahab. It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the things that seem expedient now oftentimes lead to trouble later.
This also makes plain the fruit that comes from being unequally yoked. Marriage is such an intimate matter that it is impossible for one to be unaffected by the other. This act of disobedience led to many more.
v. 11 All this occurs only a few years after Jehoshaphat dies. We are wise to be diligent in raising our children. Who our posterity will be and what they will do 100 years from now, should matter to us a great deal. Indeed, we ought to so live as to impact that day.
v. 16-20 Here then is the fruit of disobedience. Why then will we dare go that way?
