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And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.
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He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
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And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,
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But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.
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So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.
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His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.
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In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;
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And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.