2 Chronicles 17:3
Good News Translation
The LORD blessed Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father's early life and did not worship Baal.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father; he did not seek the Baals,

New American Bible
The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the earlier ways of David his father, and did not seek the Baals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,

the Lord

2 Chronicles 15:2,9 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. . . .

Genesis 39:2,3,21 And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in his master's house: . . .

Exodus 3:12 And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain.

Exodus 4:12 Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.

Joshua 1:5,9 No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee. . . .

Judges 2:18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days, he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.

Judges 6:12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant of men.

2 Samuel 5:10 And he went on prospering and growing up, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.

1 Chronicles 22:18 Saying: You see, that the Lord your God is with you, and hath given you rest round about, and hath delivered all your enemies into your hands, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.

Psalm 46:7,11 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. . . .

Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

Matthew 1:23 Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Matthew 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

he walked

2 Samuel 8:15 And David reigned over all Israel: and David did judgment and justice to all his people.

1 Kings 11:6 And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father.

1 Kings 15:3,4 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father. . . .

2 Kings 14:3 And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like David his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father, did:

2 Kings 16:2 Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, his God, as David, his father.

2 Kings 18:3 And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all that David, his father, had done

2 Kings 22:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David, his father: he turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left.

Psalm 132:1-5 A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness. . . .

his father David.

2 Chronicles 14:2-5,11 And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high places. . . .

2 Chronicles 15:8-13 And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord. . . .

sought

Judges 2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

Judges 8:33 But after Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and committed fornication with Baalim. And they made a covenant with Baal, that he should be their god:

Jeremiah 2:23 How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.

Context
Jehoshaphat Reigns in Judah
2And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. 3And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,4But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.…
Cross References
1 Kings 22:43
And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. [44] Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Chronicles 17:2
And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

2 Chronicles 17:4
But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:12
And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda,

2 Chronicles 17:2
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