Now Jehoshaphat had. — And Jehoshaphat got.
Riches and honour in abundance. — Repeated from 2 Chronicles 17:5.
And joined affinity with Ahab. — He married his son Jehoram to Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel (2 Chronicles 21:6; 1 Kings 18:8). The high degree of prosperity to which the king of Judah had attained is indicated by the fact that so powerful a monarch as Ahab entered into such an intimate connection with him. (The vav of the second clause is not adversative, as Zöckler asserts, but rather consecutive.)