2 Chroniques 17:3

3 Et l'Éternel fut avec Josaphat, parce qu'il suivit les premières voies de David, son père, et qu'il ne rechercha point les Baalim;

2 Chroniques 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 Chroniques 17:3 In-Context

1 Josaphat, son fils, régna à sa place, et se fortifia contre Israël.
2 Il mit des troupes dans toutes les villes fortes de Juda, et des garnisons dans le pays de Juda, et dans les villes d'Éphraïm qu'Asa, son père, avait prises.
3 Et l'Éternel fut avec Josaphat, parce qu'il suivit les premières voies de David, son père, et qu'il ne rechercha point les Baalim;
4 Car il rechercha le Dieu de son père, et il marcha dans ses commandements, et non pas selon ce que faisait Israël.
5 L'Éternel affermit donc le royaume entre ses mains; et tout Juda apportait des présents à Josaphat, et il eut richesse et gloire en abondance.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.