He said: “Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.

then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals

His heart was devoted to the ways of the Lord; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.

Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. “Which way did the spirit from the Lord go when he went from me to speak to you?” he asked.

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.

Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah made an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel, whose ways were wicked.

He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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.

But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better than you.

He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.

He also stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the Lord’s temple so that no one who was in any way unclean might enter.

He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals.

The other events of his reign and all his ways, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

He stationed the Levites in the temple of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets.

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.