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2 Chronicles 17:1 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 17 · verse 1
And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.2 Chronicles 17:1 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 17:1 in context
1And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
2And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- strengthenedchâzaqto fasten uponH2388 →
- JehoshaphatYᵉhôwshâphâṭJehoshaphat, the name of six IsraelitesH3092 →
- reignedmâlakto reignH4427 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sonbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
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Here we find concerning Jehoshaphat, I. What a wise man he was. As soon as he came to the crown he strengthened himself against Israel, Ch2 17:1. Ahab, an active warlike prince, had now been three years upon the throne of Israel, the vigour of his beginning falling in with the decay of Asa's conclusion.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9