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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Kings 3:1–5, “Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made. Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool. But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.”
Ahab tried to trick Jehoshaphat into taking his place as the target in battle but the Lord intervened and Ahab was killed instead. It is interesting to note that Jehoshaphat outlived Ahab and was still ruling when Ahab’s son, Jehoram, became king. Ahab’s son tried to return, in some way, to worshipping the Lord but didn’t undo the evil that Jeroboam had done when he first separated from the house of David. Ahab had made Israel into a nation that followed Baal alone but Jehoram returned to the gods of Jeroboam, which were, at least, pretence of the true God of Israel. Moab, who had been soundly defeated by David, were forced to pay a regular tribute. Later Omri, Ahab's father had defeated the Moabites and forced them to pay tribute to Israel again. While Jehoram was king, Moab, decided to stop paying that tribute.
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