1. Then Jehoshaphat, his son, reigned in his place. And he grew strong against Israel.
2. And he appointed numbers of soldiers in all the cities of Judah that had been fortified with walls. And he placed garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.
3. And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father, David. And he did not trust in the Baals,
4. but in the God of his father. And he advanced in his precepts, and not according to the sins of Israel.
5. And the Lord confirmed the kingdom in his hand. And all of Judah gave gifts to Jehoshaphat. And innumerable riches were brought to him, and much glory.
6. And when his heart had taken courage because of the ways of the Lord, he now also took away the high places and the sacred groves from Judah.