SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:3
Y fue el SEÑOR con Josafat, porque anduvo en los primeros caminos de David su padre, y no buscó a los Baales;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 17:3
Verse 3. The Lord was with Jehoshaphat] "The WORD of the Lord was Jehoshaphat's Helper." -Targum.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat , etc.] Guiding and directing, prospering and succeeding him in all things; he had, no doubt, his gracious presence in spiritual things, as well as his 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; ( 1 Kings 15:24 16:32).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Jehoshaphat promotes religion in Judah, His prosperity. --Jehoshaphat found his people generally very ignorant, and therefor endeavoured to have them well taught. The public teaching of the wor of God forms, in all ages, the great method of promoting the power of godliness. Thereby the understanding is informed, the conscience is awakened and directed. We have a particular account of Jehoshaphat' prosperity. But it was not his formidable army that restrained the neighbouring nations from attempting any thing against Israel, but the fear of God which fell upon them, when Jehoshaphat reformed his country, and set up a preaching ministry in it. The ordinances of God are more the strength and safety of a kingdom, than soldiers an weapons of war. The Bible requires use to notice the hand of God in every event, yet this is little regarded. But let all employ the talents they have: be faithful, even in that which is little. Set u the worship of God in your houses. The charge of a family is important Why should you not instruct them as Jehoshaphat did his subjects, in the book of the law of the Lord. But be consistent. Do not recommen one thing, and practise another. Begin with yourselves. Seek to the Lord God of Israel, then call upon children and servants to follow you example __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 יהוה 3068 עם 5973 יהושׁפט 3092 כי 3588 הלך 1980 בדרכי 1870 דויד 1732 אביו 1 הראשׁנים 7223 ולא 3808 דרשׁ 1875 לבעלים׃ 1168
