2 Chronicles 17:2-4

Common English Bible

² by stationing troops in the fortified cities of Judah and placing soldiers throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured. ³ The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the earlier ways of his father^[a] by not seeking Baal. ⁴ Instead, he sought the God of his father, and unlike Israel, he followed God’s commandments.