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2 Chronicles 17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>His heart was courageous in the ways of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; and furthermore he removed the high places and the sacred poles<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11530b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> from Judah.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>With them were the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> with them; they went around through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The fear of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> fell on all the kingdoms of the lands around Judah, and they did not make war against Jehoshaphat. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; and the Arabs also brought him seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred male goats. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He carried out great works in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty warriors, in Jerusalem. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>This was the muster of them by ancestral houses: Of Judah, the commanders of the thousands: Adnah the commander, with three hundred thousand mighty warriors, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with two hundred eighty thousand, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>and next to him Amasiah son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, with two hundred thousand mighty warriors. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty warrior, with two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>and next to him Jehozabad with one hundred eighty thousand armed for war. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 17:3">2 Chronicles 17:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Another reading is <i>his father David</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 17:6">2 Chronicles 17:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Asherim</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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