3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,
4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
5 Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honour in abundance.
6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.
7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
9 They taught in Judah, having the book of the Lord’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught amongst the people.