2 Cronache 17:3

3 E l’Eterno fu con Giosafat, perch’egli camminò nelle vie che Davide suo padre avea seguite da principio, e cercò, non i Baali,

2 Cronache 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 Cronache 17:3 In-Context

1 Giosafat, figliuolo di Asa, regnò in luogo di lui, e si fortificò contro Israele;

2 collocò dei presidi in tutte le città fortificate di Giuda, e pose delle guarnigioni nel paese di Giuda e nelle città di Efraim, che Asa suo padre avea conquistate.

3 E l’Eterno fu con Giosafat, perch’egli camminò nelle vie che Davide suo padre avea seguite da principio, e cercò, non i Baali,

4 ma l’Iddio di suo padre; e si condusse secondo i suoi comandamenti, senza imitare quel che faceva Israele.

5 Perciò l’Eterno assicurò il possesso del regno nelle mani di Giosafat; tutto Giuda gli recava dei doni, ed egli ebbe ricchezza e gloria in abbondanza.