Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
Jehoshaphat secured the kingdom to his firstborn out of paternal kindness, portioning his better brothers so they would not trouble him, but indulgence breeds ingratitude, not duty. Whether he served his people well by putting an unfit man on the throne when others were hopeful and wise, I cannot say; the welfare of the people must be the first law.
AI summary
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 21:1-11
And hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel,.... Worshipping the calves, and even Baal, with other idols, as they did: and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab; meaning spiritual whoredoms or idolatries: and hast also slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself...
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto]. (f) Meaning, idolatry because the idolater breaks promise with God as the adulteress does to her husband.