2 Chroniques 17:3

3 L'Eternel fut avec Josaphat, parce qu'il marcha dans les premières voies de David, son père, et qu'il ne rechercha point les Baals;

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. Il 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'Ephraïm dont Asa, son père, s'était emparé.

3 L'Eternel fut avec Josaphat, parce qu'il marcha dans les premières voies de David, son père, et qu'il ne rechercha point les Baals;

4 car il eut recours au Dieu de son père, et il suivit ses commandements, sans imiter ce que faisait Israël.

5 L'Eternel affermit la royauté entre les mains de Josaphat, à qui tout Juda apportait des présents, et qui eut en abondance des richesses et de la gloire.