1 E Jeosafá, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar; e fortificou-se contra Israel.
2 E pôs soldados em todas as cidades fortificadas de Judá, e estabeleceu guarnições na terra de Judá, como também nas cidades de Efraim, que Asa seu pai tinha tomado.
3 E o Senhor era com Jeosafá; porque andou nos primeiros caminhos de Davi seu pai, e não buscou a Baalins.
4 Antes buscou ao Deus de seu pai, andou nos seus mandamentos, e não segundo as obras de Israel.
5 E o Senhor confirmou o reino na sua mão, e todo o Judá deu presentes a Jeosafá, o qual teve riquezas e glória em abundância.
6 E exaltou-se o seu coração nos caminhos do Senhor e, ainda mais, tirou os altos e os bosques de Judá.
7 E no terceiro ano do seu reinado enviou ele os seus príncipes, a Bene-Hail, a Obadias, a Zacarias, a Natanael e a Micaías, para ensinarem nas cidades de Judá.
8 E com eles os levitas, Semaías, Netanias, Zebadias, Asael, Semiramote, Jônatas, Adonias, Tobias e Tobe-Adonias e, com estes levitas, os sacerdotes, Elisama e Jeorão.
9 E ensinaram em Judá, levando consigo o livro da lei do Senhor; e foram a todas as cidades de Judá, ensinando entre o povo.
10 E veio o temor do Senhor sobre todos os reinos das terras, que estavam ao redor de Judá, e não guerrearam contra Jeosafá.
11 E alguns dentre os filisteus traziam presentes a Jeosafá, e prata como tributo; também os árabes lhe trouxeram gado miúdo; sete mil e setecentos carneiros, e sete mil e setecentos bodes.
12 Cresceu, pois, Jeosafá grandemente em extremo e edificou fortalezas e cidades de provisões em Judá.
13 E teve muitas obras nas cidades de Judá, e homens de guerra e valentes, em Jerusalém.
14 E este é o número deles segundo as suas casas paternas; em Judá eram capitàes dos milhares: o chefe Adna, e com ele trezentos mil homens valentes;
15 E depois dele o capitão Joanã, e com ele duzentos e oitenta mil;
16 E depois Amasias, filho de Zicri, que voluntariamente se entregou ao Senhor, e com ele duzentos mil homens valentes;
17 E de Benjamim, Eliada, homem valente, e com ele duzentos mil, armados de arco e de escudo;
18 E depois dele Jozabade, e com ele cento e oitenta mil, armados para a guerra.
19 Estes estavam no serviço do rei; afora os que o rei tinha posto nas cidades fortes por todo o Judá.
1 And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.
2 He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,
4 But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.
5 So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.
6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.
7 In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;
8 And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.
9 And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.
10 And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.
11 And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.
12 Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.
13 He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.
14 This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;
15 Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;
16 After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;
17 And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;
18 And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.
19 These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.