Bible in Basic English
"But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did."
— 2 Chronicles 17:4, Bible in Basic English
“But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.”
And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.
He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,
But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.
So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.
His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.
In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;