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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Jehoshaphat’s Zeal for the Law.
1His son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king and strengthened his
position against Israel.a 2He 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. 3The LORD was with Jehoshaphat,* for he walked in the
earlier ways of David his father, and did not seek the Baals.
4Rather, he sought the God of his father and walked in his
commands, and not the practices of Israel. 5Through him, the
LORD made the kingdom secure, and all Judah gave Jehoshaphat
gifts, so that great wealth and glory was his. 6Thus he was
encouraged* to follow the LORD’s ways, and once again he removed
the high places and the asherahs from Judah.b 7In the third year
of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah,
Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of
Judah. 8With them he sent the Levites She