1. Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
2. Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath is on you from before the Lord.
3. Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
4. Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again amongst the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
5. He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,