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2 Chronicles 17 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:1 - And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:2 - He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:5 - So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:7 - In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:8 - And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9 - And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:10 - And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:11 - And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:12 - Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:13 - He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:14 - This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:15 - Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:16 - After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:17 - And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:18 - And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:19 - These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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2 Chronicles Chapter 17 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras