2 Kronieken 17:3

3 En de HEERE was met Josafat; want hij wandelde in de vorige wegen zijns vaders Davids, en zocht de Baals niet.

2 Kronieken 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 Kronieken 17:3 In-Context

1 En zijn zoon Josafat werd koning in zijn plaats, en hij sterkte zich tegen Israel.

2 En hij legde krijgsvolk in alle vaste steden van Juda, en legde bezettingen in het land van Juda, en in de steden van Efraim, die zijn vader Asa ingenomen had.

3 En de HEERE was met Josafat; want hij wandelde in de vorige wegen zijns vaders Davids, en zocht de Baals niet.

4 Maar hij zocht den God zijns vaders, en wandelde in Zijn geboden, en niet naar het doen van Israel.

5 En de HEERE bevestigde het koninkrijk in zijn hand, en gans Juda gaf Josafat geschenken; en hij had rijkdom en eer in menigte.