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And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against Israel.
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And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
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And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,
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But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.
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And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda brought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much glory.
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And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.
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And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes Benhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to teach in the cites of Juda:
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And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias, and Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and Thobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests.