Jehu the seer confronts Jehoshaphat with a word of judgment and grace — 'Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD?' (האתה עוזר לרשע). The reproof alludes to Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab (2 Chr 18), the disastrous Ramoth-gilead campaign. Yet mercy tempers the rebuke: 'Nevertheless, some good is found in you' (אך דברים טובים נמצאו בך). The Chronicler presents judgment and restoration as the pattern of divine relation with the Davidic covenant — reproof awakens the king to his covenantal duty. Jehu's office as seer (חוזה) places him in the succession of prophetic oversight that began with Gad and Nathan.

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