2 Cronache 17:3

3 E il Signore fu con Giosafat; perciocchè egli camminò nelle primiere vie di Davide, suo padre, e non ricercò i Baali.

2 Cronache 17:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 17:3

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat
Guiding and directing, prospering and succeeding him in all things; he had, no doubt, his gracious presence in spiritual things, as well as his powerful and directing presence in things civil; the Targum is,

``the Word of the Lord was for his help;''

because he walked in the first ways of his father David;
which were his best; some of his last ways not being good, as in the affair of Uriah and Bathsheba, and his numbering of the people; Jehoshaphat followed him in the one, but not in the other: or, "in the ways of David and his father, the first"; the first of them both; for the latter ways of his father Asa were not so good as his first, as the preceding chapter shows; and the Septuagint version leaves out the word "David", and so restrains it to his own father:

and sought not unto Baalim;
as did Ahab king of Israel, who now reigned there; ( 1 Kings 15:24 ) ( 16:32 ) .

2 Cronache 17:3 In-Context

1 E GIOSAFAT, figliuolo di Asa, regnò in luogo suo, e si fortificò contro ad Israele.
2 E pose delle schiere di gente di guerra per tutte le città forti di Giuda, e mise guernigioni nel paese di Giuda, e nelle città di Efraim, le quali Asa, suo padre, avea prese.
3 E il Signore fu con Giosafat; perciocchè egli camminò nelle primiere vie di Davide, suo padre, e non ricercò i Baali.
4 Anzi ricercò l’Iddio di suo padre, e camminò ne’ suoi comandamenti, e non fece come Israele.
5 Laonde il Signore stabilì il reame nelle mani di esso; e tutto Giuda gli portava presenti talchè egli ebbe gran ricchezze e gloria.
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