What a way to make the top 10!
OK...so Jehoshaphat has come home from Israel to the rebuke from God. " Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this the wrath of the LORD is upon you. " (2 Chronicles 19:2) And, in response, he did a GREAT job cleaning house...calling the people back to GOD, sending out judges and priests and elders. But what the prophet told him was that because he had gone to war with Ahab (the wicked man who hated the LORD) that Jehoshaphat was under the wrath of God. I bet he dreamed about that word...like in movies when the dreams replay like a psychedelic broken record: "wrath..wrath of God..wra-wra-wrath of God, the wrath of God is UPON you". So one morning a messenger comes in with a grim face and Jehoshaphat's stomach fell -- the armies of the Moabites and Amnonites and some of the Edomites were on their way, and in fact they were already in the En-Gedi -- in Judah and only a few hours away. And Jehoshaphat does exactly the rig...