2 Kings 3:7

Sent to Jehoshaphat. The close alliance between the two kingdoms still existed. Probably only a year had passed since Jehoshaphat had accompanied Ahab to the attack on Ramoth-gilead. Joram apparently expected the same help in the war with Moab that his father had received in the war with Syria.

I will go. When Jehoshaphat had consented to go with Ahab against the Syrians he was rebuked by the prophet Jehu for giving help to “the ungodly” and loving “them that hate the Lord” (2 Chron. 19:2). But now he again gave his consent to a similar request, this time to go with Joram against the Moabites. The reason for Jehoshaphat’s willingness to accompany Joram is not given, but perhaps he was moved by the fact that Joram had shown himself less inclined to follow in the ways of evil than had Ahab his father, and had put away the image of Baal. The two nations were probably still bound by the terms of their previous alliance, for even after the death of Ahab, Jehoshaphat joined with Ahaziah in an enterprise involving the building of ships at Ezion-geber to engage in foreign trade (2 Chron. 20:35–37). Later Joram had the assistance of Jehoshaphat’s grandson Ahaziah in another war against Syria (2 Chron. 22:5).