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2 Chronicles 18:1

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riches: 2 Chronicles 1:11-15, 2 Chronicles 17:5, 2 Chronicles 17:12; Matthew 6:33

joined affinity: He took Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, to be wife to his son Joram (2 Kings 8:18); which fatal connection was highly displeasing to God, and Jehoshaphat was severely reproved for it by Jehu the seer, 2 Chronicles 19:1-3. 2 Chronicles 18:31, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Chronicles 21:6, 2 Chronicles 22:2-3; 1 Kings 16:31-33, 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Kings 8:26-27, 2 Kings 11:1; 2 Corinthians 6:14

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