^{1 Ref} And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.

^{2 Ref} 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.

^{3 Ref} And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

^{4 Ref} But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

^{5 Ref} So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

^{6 Ref} 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.

^{7 Ref} 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;

^{8 Ref} 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.

^{9 Ref} And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.