And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Ver. 2. And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer.] Jehu delivered his message with better success than his father had done. 2Ch 16:7 Asa had gall in his ears, as some creatures are said to have; but good Jehoshaphat had aures purgatissimas, a "hearing ear," Pro 20:12 an "obedient ear," Pro 25:12 upon which "a wise reprover is as an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold." See Trapp on " Pro 25:12 "
Shouldest thou help the ungodly,] i.e., That wicked wretch Ahab, of whom it might be said, as afterwards it was of the Jews in St Paul's time, that "they pleased not God, and were contrary to all men," 1Th 2:15 or as the historian said of Commodus, the emperor, that he was called "the enemy of God and men."
And love them that hate the Lord?] I think not. Idolaters are God-haters - whatever they pretend - and are therefore to be heartily "hated," Psa 139:22 provided that we hate non virum, sed vitium, not the man, but his manners.
Therefore is wrath upon thee.] Thy late great danger was a fair warning, and must be kept in recent remembrance. The Moabites and the Ammonites, &c., are preparing against thee. The prophet also might have respect - as one a hath well observed - to some dissension that began at present betwixt his sons; the seeds of that horrid slaughter Jehoram did afterwards make amongst them. 2Ch 21:4
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