2 Chronicles 20:33 — Meaning and Application

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“Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.”

2 Chronicles 20:33

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And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: {he was} thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD.

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they {are} written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who {is} mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel. {book of Jehu: Heb. words, etc} {is mentioned: Heb. was made to ascend}

And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

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2 Chronicles 20:1

"It came to pass after this also, {that} the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them {other} beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle."

2 Chronicles 20:2

"Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they {be} in Hazazontamar, which {is} Engedi."

2 Chronicles 20:3

"And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. {himself: Heb. his face}"

2 Chronicles 20:4

"And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask {help} of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD."

2 Chronicles 20:5

"And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,"

2 Chronicles 20:6

"And said, O LORD God of our fathers, {art} not thou God in heaven? and rulest {not} thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand {is there not} power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?"

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