2 Chronicles 22

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXII.—Certain is their ruin whom God has doomed to it; and dreadful the consequences of unhallowed marriages with the ungodly. Behold how the woman, for whose sake Jehoshaphat had cultivated friendship with Ahab, reduces his glorious kingdom and numerous family, nay, his blessed reformation, to the brink of ruin! She had doubtless advised her husband to murder his brethren and princes, and to hurry himself, through scenes of misery, into endless fire. Now she counsels her son to do wickedly. Advised by her, he cultivates intimacy with Jehoram her brother, and involves himself and relations in his ruin. Behold the infuriated monster murdering princes, and embruing her hands in the blood of her innocent, her orphan babes! And, to the reproach of Judah, the savage murderer, the vile idolater, is permitted to fill the sacred throne without so much as a shadow of title! But, meanwhile, behold how God, for his promise sake, preserves in his house a young and helpless descendant of David to wear the crown, and even usher in the Messiah in his time! Vain is every attempt of earth and hell to defeat the word of truth; not one jot or tittle of it shall ever fail. 4