1. His son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king and strengthened his position against Israel.
2. He 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.
3. The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the earlier ways of David his father, and did not seek the Baals.
4. Rather, he sought the God of his father and walked in his commands, and not the practices of Israel.
5. Through him, the Lord made the kingdom secure, and all Judah gave Jehoshaphat gifts, so that great wealth and glory was his.