1. And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against Israel.
2. And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3. And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,