2 Chronicles 17:1-9 ▼

1 His son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king and strengthened his position against Israel.

2 He placed armed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had taken.

3 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the earlier ways of David his father, and did not seek the Baals.

4 Rather, he sought the God of his father and walked in his commands, and not the practices of Israel.

5 Through him, the LORD made the kingdom secure, and all Judah gave Jehoshaphat gifts, so that great wealth and glory was his.

6 Thus he was encouraged to follow the LORD’s ways, and once again he removed the high places and the asherahs from Judah.

7 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

8 With them he sent the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, and Tobijah, together with Elishama and Jehoram the priests.

9 They taught in Judah, having with them the book of the law of the LORD; they traveled through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.