2 Crónicas 17:3

3 Y el SEÑOR estuvo con Josafat porque anduvo en los primeros caminos de su padre David y no buscó a los baales,

2 Crónicas 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 Crónicas 17:3 In-Context

1 Entonces su hijo Josafat reinó en su lugar, y afirmó su dominio sobre Israel.

2 Puso tropas en todas las ciudades fortificadas de Judá, y puso guarniciones en la tierra de Judá y en las ciudades de Efraín que su padre Asa había tomado.

3 Y el SEÑOR estuvo con Josafat porque anduvo en los primeros caminos de su padre David y no buscó a los baales,

4 sino que buscó al Dios de su padre, anduvo en sus mandamientos y no hizo como Israel.

5 El SEÑOR, pues, afirmó el reino bajo su mano; y todo Judá trajo tributo a Josafat, y tuvo grandes riquezas y honores.