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“Let there be a treaty between me and you,” he said, “as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will withdraw from me.”
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He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
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The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals
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but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel.
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He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
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Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and articles of value, as well as fortified cities in Judah, but he had given the kingdom to Jehoram because he was his firstborn son.
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Jehoram King of Judah
When Jehoram established himself firmly over his father’s kingdom, he put all his brothers to the sword along with some of the officials of Israel.
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Jehoram received a letter from Elijah the prophet, which said: “This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah.
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father’s death they became his advisers, to his undoing.
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King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the Lord see this and call you to account.”
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After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
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Uzziah King of Judah
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Amaziah had done.
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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Uzziah had done, but unlike him he did not enter the temple of the Lord. The people, however, continued their corrupt practices.
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Ahaz King of Judah
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.
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This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity.
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He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped and offered sacrifices to all the idols Manasseh had made.
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But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before the Lord; Amon increased his guilt.
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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
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In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.
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And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
