1
Yehoshafat the king of Yehudah returned to his house in shalom to Yerushalayim.
2
Yehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Yehoshafat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? for this thing wrath is on you from before the LORD.
3
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asherot out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
4
Yehoshafat lived at Yerushalayim: and he went out again among the people from Be'er-Sheva to the hill-country of Efrayim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
5
He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Yehudah, city by city,