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2 Chronicles 17:2-4
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2 He placed troops in all Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons[a] throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor[b] David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign.[c] He did not seek the Baals, 4 but instead sought the God of his ancestors[d] and obeyed[e] his commands, unlike the Israelites.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 17:2 tn Or perhaps, “governors.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 17:3 tn Heb “father.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 17:3 tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”
  4. 2 Chronicles 17:4 tn Heb “fathers.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 17:4 tn Heb “walked in.”
  6. 2 Chronicles 17:4 tn Heb “and not like the behavior of Israel.”
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