Key Verse Spotlight
2 Chronicles 19:3 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.”
2 Chronicles 19:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore {is} wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers. {he went...: Heb. he returned and went out}
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
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