And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
Ver. 2. Jehoshaphat came down to the king of Israel.] With whom he warred at first with good success: 2Ch 17:1-3 but afterwards, for some politic respect, as haply to withstand the growing greatness of the Syrian, an ill neighbour to them both, he contracted with Ahab affinity and amity, and here cometh down to give him a courtly visit, which had like to have cost him his life.