Jehoshaphat had been quite a good king, but his son Jehoram was not. Jehoram followed the ways of Ahab, and this was a result of his having married a daughter of Ahab. We need to be careful who we marry for it will have a deep effect on our lives. If you are a believer but marry a non-believer you take an enormous risk and may lose your salvation. Now there are cases where someone marries an unbeliever and the unbeliever gets saved. Praise God when this happens, but the most likely outcome is that the believer will be led away from the Lord. Now the case of where two people are married and one gets saved is completely different. In this case, Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 7 applies. We can so easily be led astray by our emotions.
God did not destroy Judah because of His promise to David. We need to realise that sometimes we are blessed, or seem to "get away with things" because of the goodness of someone else.
However, Judah did experience increased difficulties, with various subjugated nations rebelling against them. As mentioned before, when we rebel against God we lost authority.
Ahaziah succeeded Jehoram and he was no better. Again, he was related to the house of Ahab and this was the source of the trouble. Ahaziah joined Joram in battles against Hazael.
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