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all the fortified cities of Juda he garrisoned, and kept troops on guard throughout Juda, and in the cities his father Asa had taken from Ephraim. (2 Chronicles 17, 2)
Josaphat reigned, and the Lord was with him, because the first years of his father (David)✻ were the example he followed; he put his trust, not in gods of the country-side, (2 Chronicles 17, 3)
but in his own father’s God; kept close to the divine commandments, far from the sins of Israel. (2 Chronicles 17, 4)
This reign of his over Juda began when he was thirty-five years old, and for twenty-five years it lasted, there in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azuba, daughter of Selahi. (2 Chronicles 20, 31)
He followed the example of his father Asa, and never swerved aside from the Lord’s will; (2 Chronicles 20, 32)
and to all these their father gave rich presents of silver and gold, money for their needs, and walled cities in Juda to be their homes, but to Joram, the eldest, he left his kingdom. (2 Chronicles 21, 3)
So Joram came to his father’s throne, and when he was firmly established on it, he slew all these brethren of his, and some of the chief men of Juda with them. (2 Chronicles 21, 4)
A letter, too, was brought to him, written by the prophet Elias, with a message from the Lord, the God of his father David: Not for thee the example of thy father Josaphat, and of king Asa, that reigned in Juda before thee; (2 Chronicles 21, 12)
thou wouldst play the wanton, like the house of Achab, teach the men of Juda and Jerusalem to betray their troth, after Israel’s fashion, and wouldst slay thy brethren, princes of thy own father’s line, better men than thyself. (2 Chronicles 21, 13)
When he came to the throne, he had lived (twice) a score of years and two,✻ and his reign at Jerusalem lasted but a year. His mother’s name was Athalia, descended from Amri. (2 Chronicles 22, 2)
He too followed the example of Achab’s line, his mother prompting him to impious deeds. (2 Chronicles 22, 3)
Little wonder if he defied the Lord’s will no less than Achab’s race, since these were his counsellors, to his undoing, after his father died. (2 Chronicles 22, 4)
