2 Chronicles 19:7

Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you.

Jehoshaphat reproved

I. His sin. This was--

1. Helping in an ungodly enterprise, against which the prophet had warned him.

2. Forming an alliance, of which the influence on himself, his family, and people could only be bad. It fills one with a kind of despair to see how, among those who profess to regard religion an all-important, friendships and alliances discussed and fixed without this ever coming into view.

II. The rebuke which followed the king’s sin.

III. The king’s repentance.

1. He received reproof with meekness.

2. He kept aloof from occasions of fresh sin.

3. He did what he could to repair the wrong his example had done.

IV. What made jehoshaphat so prompt to return to the right path when once he had left it? His deep sense of God and right appreciation of His character. “Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.” Nothing so controllingly underlies what a man is and does as his cherished thoughts of God. (Monday Club Sermons.)