came down. In every sense of the word; and this after 2Ch_17:1. First was the matrimonial alliance (2Ch_18:1), compare 2Ki_8:18; and then the military alliance (1Ki_22:4 and 2Ch_18:3). No mention here of the former, which was the secret cause that led up to it. Both fatal. Compare the commercial alliance of Jehoshaphat in 2Ch_20:35-37, and the experience gained by Jehoshaphat in Ch. 1Ki_22:48, 1Ki_22:49.