1. Jehoshaphat his son then became king in his place, and made his position over Israel firm.
2. He placed troops 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 captured.
3. The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David's earlier days and did not seek the Baals,