as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

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

All the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

Now the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the temple of God and had used even its sacred objects for the Baals.

God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal and against the Meunites.

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

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.

Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.