2 Chronicles 17:3

2 Chronicles Old Testament

WEB

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and did not seek the Baals,

KJV

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

Commentary

Commentary

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat,.... Guiding and directing, prospering and succeeding him in all things; he had, no doubt, his gracious presence in spiritual things, as well as h is powerful and directing presence in things civil; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord was for his help;" because he walked in the first ways of his father David; which were his best; some of his last ways not being good, as in the affair of Uriah and Bathsheba, and his numbering of the people; Jehoshaphat followed him in the one, but not in the other: or, "in the ways of David and his father, the first"; the first of them both; for the latter ways of his father Asa were not so good as his first, as the preceding chapter shows; and the Septuagint version leaves out the word "David", and so restrains it to his own father: and sought not unto Baalim; as did Ahab king of Israel, who now reigned there; Kg1 15:24 .