[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.