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KING JEHOSHAPHAT THE SON OF KING ASA. KING ASA WAS THE THIRD KING OF JUDAH AND THE FIFTH KING FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID.

JEHOSHAPHAT WALKED IN THE WAYS OF DAVID AND SOUGHT GOD AND NOT IDOLS.

17:6 - JEHOSHAPHAT REMOVED THE OF IDOL IMAGES THAT HS FATHER HAD SET UP.

17:10-11 - THE PHILISTINES BROUGHT JEHOSHAPHAT GIFTS: 7700 RAMS AND 7700 GOATS.

GOATS TODAY : 300 EACH OR 2,300,000

RAMS TODAY: 500 EACH OR 3,800,000

$6,100,000

ACCORDING TO 17:14-19 JEHOSHAPHAT HAD 1.1 MILLION MAN ARMY. MIGHTY MEN OF VALOR WHO HAD NO FEAR.

18:1 “JEHOSHAPHAT HAD RICHES AND HONOR IN ABUNDANCE; AND BY MARRIAGE HE ALLIED HIMSELF WITH AHAB.”

JEHOSHAPHAT ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH AHAB.

AHAB WAS AN EVIL KING. HE DID NOT BELIEVE IN GOD.

1 KINGS 16:30 “NOW AHAB THE SON OF OMRI DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, MORE THAN ALL WHO WERE BEFORE HIM.”

YOU HAVE TO BE CARFUL WHO YOU ALIGN YOURSELF WITH..

AHAB ASKS JEHOSHAPHAT TO GO TO WAR WITH HIM.

JEHOSHAPHAT AGREES IN 18:3 BUT SAYS IN 18:4 PLEASE INQUIRE OF THE WORD OF THE LORD BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING YOU BETTER INQUIRE OF THE LORD..

18:5

“THEN THE KING GATHERED ALL 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.”

18:6 “BUT JEHOSHAPHAT SAID, IS THERE NOT STILL A PROPHET OF THE LORD HERE, THAT WE MAY INQUIRE OF HIM?”

EVERY BODY WHO HAS A TITLE IS NOT CALLED OF GOD…

18:7 AHAB IDENTIFIES MICAIAH. AHAB HATES MICAIAH BECAUSE HE ALWAYS PROPHESIES EVIL

AGAINST AHAB

ALL OF THE FALSE PROPHETS SAID GO UP AND YOU WILL RECEIVE THE VICTORY

MICAIAH TELLS THE KING IN 18:16 THAT HE SAW ISRAEL SCATTERED ALL OVER.

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