If the result of my wrong relationship ...

What should we do with my wrong relationship

If the consequences of that wrong relationship have the adverse effects

Not only on our children but also on our grandchildren?

King Jehoshaphat of Judah had wrong relationship.

He had a relationship with the wicked King Ahab of Israel

by all allying himself by marriage with Ahab (2 Chron. 18:1; 19:2).

King Jehoshaphat married his son Jehoram with the daughter of King Ahab (21:6).

As a result, King Jehoram walked in the way of the kings of Israel.

In other words, he did evil in the sight of the Lord (v. 6).

He made high places in the mountains of Judah,

and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah astray (v. 11).

Not only that, he also killed his brothers, his own family, who were better than him (v. 13).

It didn’t end here.

Because of the wrong relationship that King Johoshaphat made,

Not only his son Jehoram did evil in the sight of the Lord (v. 6)

But also his grandson Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab (22:3).

King Ahaziah seemed to be forced to do so

Because his mother [Jehoram’s wife who was Ahab’s daughter (21:6)] was his counselor

to do wickedly (22:3).

“He did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab,

for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction” (v. 4).

The consequences of the wrong relationship  that King Jehoshaphat made with King Ahab

Not only had the adverse effects on his son Jehoram

But also his grandson Ahaziah.

There seems to be no law that this wouldn’t happen to us.