2 Chronicles 18:28-34

2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 Chronicles 18:28 Ahab is enticed into battle, as the lying spirit promised (v. 2 Chronicles 18:20). Ahab decides to disguise himself (see note on 1 Kings 22:30) and directs Jehoshaphat to wear his royal robes. This indicates Ahab’s dominant role in the alliance and perhaps also represents an attempt to avoid Micaiah’s word of doom. But Jehoshaphat is saved as a consequence of his desperate prayer (2 Chronicles 18:31), while Ahab dies from an apparently random arrow (v. 2 Chronicles 18:33). This is clear evidence of God’s sovereign direction of events.