¹And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and he strengthened himself against Israel. ²And he put forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and he put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had captured. ³And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father, and he did not seek the Baalim, ⁴for he sought the God of his father, and he walked in his commandments, and not like the practice of Israel. ⁵And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Judah gave gifts to Jehoshaphat, and he had wealth and honour in abundance. ⁶And his heart was exuberant in the ways of the Lord, and furthermore he removed the idolatrous raised sites and the phallic parks from Judah. ⁷And in the third year of his reign, he sent teachers to his senior officials, to Ben-Hail and to Obadiah and to Zechariah and to Nethaneel and to Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. ⁸And with them were the Levites, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jonathan and Adonijah and Tobiah and Tob-Adonijah – the Levites – and with them were Elishama and Jehoram the priests. ⁹And they taught in Judah, and with them was the book of the law of the Lord. And they went round all the cities of Judah, and they taught among the people. ¹⁰And the fear of the Lord came over all the kingdoms of the countries around Judah, and they did not fight against Jehoshaphat. ¹¹And some of the Philistines brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, and silver, as tribute. Also, the Arabs brought him sheep – seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred he-goats. ¹²And Jehoshaphat became greater and greater in the extreme, and he built palaces and storehouse cities in Judah. ¹³And he had a lot of business in the cities of Judah, whereas the men of war – the valiant warriors – were in Jerusalem. ¹⁴And these were their offices according to their paternal house: for Judah, the commanders of a thousand were Adnah the commander, with whom were three hundred thousand valiant warriors, ¹⁵and next in line to him was Jehohanan the commander, with whom were two hundred and eighty thousand men, ¹⁶and next in line to him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who volunteered for the Lord, with whom were two hundred thousand valiant warriors; ¹⁷and from Benjamin was the valiant warrior Eliada, with whom were those armed with bow and buckler – two hundred thousand men, ¹⁸and next in line to him was Jehozabad, with whom were one hundred and eighty thousand armed soldiers. ¹⁹These were those who served the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortified cities all over Judah.