Note 12 — JEHOSHAPHAT
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The reader will doubtless observe how the inspired writer presents God under two different titles in the above verse. "The Lord" brings out His connection with His distressed servant—His connection in grace; while the expression "God" shows out the powerful control which He exercised over the Syrian captains. It is needless to say that this distinction is divinely perfect. As Lord, He deals with His own redeemed people,—meeting all their weakness, and supplying all their need; but as God, He holds in His omnipotent hand the hearts of all men, to turn them whithersoever He will. Now we generally find unconverted persons using the expression "God," and not "Lord." They think of Him as One exercising an influence from a distance, rather than as One standing in near relationship. Jehoshaphat knew who it was that "helped him," but the Syrian captains did not know who it was that "moved them."