2 Crónicas 17:3

3 Y estuvo el SEÑOR con Josafat, porque anduvo en los primeros caminos de David su padre, 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 Y reinó en su lugar Josafat su hijo, el cual prevaleció contra Israel

2 Y puso ejército en todas las ciudades fuertes de Judá, y colocó gente de guarnición, en tierra de Judá, y asimismo en las ciudades de Efraín que su padre Asa había tomado

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

4 sino que buscó al Dios de su padre, y anduvo en sus mandamientos, y no según las obras de Israel

5 El SEÑOR, por tanto, confirmó el reino en su mano, y todo Judá dio a Josafat presentes; y tuvo riquezas y gloria en abundancia