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by placing troops in all of the fortified citadels through Judah and by establishing garrisons throughout the land of Judah and in the cities that his father Asa had captured.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example set during his ancestor David’s preliminary years by not pursuing the Baals.[a] Instead, Jehoshaphat[b] sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 17:3 I.e. the supreme male divinity of the Philistines and Canaanites
  2. 2 Chronicles 17:4 Lit. he