2 Tawarikh 17:1-4

Jehoshaphat Becomes King

17:1 His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king and solidified his rule over Israel. ¹  17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons ²  throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor ³  David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. ⁴  He did not seek the Baals, 17:4 but instead sought the God of his ancestors ⁵  and obeyed ⁶  his commands, unlike the Israelites. ⁷ 

[17:1]  ¹ tn Heb “and strengthened himself over Israel.”

[17:2]  ² tn Or perhaps, “governors.”

[17:3]  ³ tn Heb “father.”

[17:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”

[17:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

[17:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “walked in.”

[17:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “and not like the behavior of Israel.”