2 Chronicles 19:3

3 Nevertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God."

2 Chronicles 19:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee
Principles of grace, righteousness, and holiness, faith, love, zeal, and other graces, true and genuine, from whence sprung many good works done by him:

in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land;
cut down the groves of trees, and destroyed the idols and images in them:

and hast prepared thine heart to seek God;
through the grace of God his heart was disposed to serve and worship the Lord, and to seek his honour and glory.

2 Chronicles 19:3 In-Context

1 Then Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned safely to his house in Jerusalem.

2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the wrath of the Lord is upon you.

3 Nevertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God."

4 So Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the mountains of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord God of their fathers.

5 Then he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,