2 Chronicles 18:19 - Exposition

Who shall entice , etc.? Hebrew piel future פָתָח . This and the following three verses must have told, manifestly did tell, with fearful force of faithful preaching, upon the unreal prophets and the wicked king. How it was that their contents did not avail with Jehoshaphat to throw full energy again into his conscience, and to enable him to break at once with Ahab and his expedition, is inexplicable (and the more as it was his own pressing suggestion that the true prophet should be summoned), except as another illustration of the fearful difficulty that lies so often to human weakness, in the way of retracing a false step. Both these visions ( 2 Chronicles 18:16 , 2 Chronicles 18:18-22 ) well illustrate how God revealed his truth, will and specific messages to his true prophets in vision . The vision of the throne, grand in all the majesty of its simplicity, of the psalmists ( Psalms 9:1-20 ; Psalms 11:1-7 ; Psalms 45:1-17 ; Psalms 103:1-22 ), of Isaiah ( Isaiah 6:1-5 ), of Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 1:26 ), of Daniel ( Daniel 7:9 ), of Stephen ( Acts 7:56 ), of St. John ( Revelation 4:2 ), is part of heaven's own stamp of authentication of the Bible.