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2 Chronicles 19:3-5
New English Translation

3 Nevertheless you have done some good things;[a] you removed[b] the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”[c]

Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges

4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow[d] the Lord God of their ancestors.[e] 5 He appointed judges throughout the land and in each of the fortified cities of Judah.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 19:3 tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 19:3 tn Here בָּעַר (baʿar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.
  3. 2 Chronicles 19:3 tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek God.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 19:4 tn Heb “and turned them back to.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 19:4 tn Heb “fathers.”
  6. 2 Chronicles 19:5 tn Heb “in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.”
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