2 Chronicles 19:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the sacred poles^[a] out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.’

The Reforms of Jehoshaphat

⁴ Jehoshaphat resided at Jerusalem; then he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their ancestors. ⁵ He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,