2 Chronicles 21

Eliphaz said some foolish things to his suffering friend Job, but he also stated some eternal principles, one of them being, “Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4: nkjv). Solomon repeated this truth in Proverbs 22:8, “He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow” (nkjv), and the prophet Hosea put it graphically when he said, “They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind” (Hos. 8: nkjv). Jeroboam, Omri, and Ahab had led the northern kingdom of Israel into idolatry; and Jehoram, who married a daughter of Ahab, had introduced Baal worship into the kingdom of Judah. Both kingdoms were rebellious against the Lord and polluted by idolatry, but now the day of judgment had arrived for Ahab’s dynasty, the day that the prophet Elijah had predicted (1 Kings 21:21, 29).