| 17:1 |
And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel. |
| 17:2 |
He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. |
| 17:3 |
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals, |
| 17:4 |
But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did. |
| 17:5 |
So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour. |
| 17:6 |
His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah. |
| 17:7 |
In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah; |
| 17:8 |
And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests. |
| 17:9 |
And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people. |
| 17:10 |
And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat. |
| 17:11 |
And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats. |
| 17:12 |
Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah. |
| 17:13 |
He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem. |
| 17:14 |
This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war; |
| 17:15 |
Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand; |
| 17:16 |
After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war; |
| 17:17 |
And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers; |
| 17:18 |
And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war. |
| 17:19 |
These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah. |
