2 Chronicles 17:3
And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4But in the God of his father, and walk in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.
Cross References
Genesis 39:21His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to his wife's words, was very angry.
Exodus 4:12Go therefore and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.
Joshua 1:9Behold I command thee, take courage, end be strong. Fear not and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.
Judges 2:18And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.
Judges 8:33But after Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and committed fornication with Baalim. And they made a covenant with Baal, that he should be their god:
1 Samuel 18:12And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from himself.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 17:2-10
Jehoshaphat Succeeds Asa. ( b. c. 914.) 1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. 2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. 3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; 4 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of… Read the whole commentary →