A prophet rebukes Jehoshaphat
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📚And Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, returned to his house at Jerusalem in peace.2 📚And Jehu 📖, the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the ungodly, and love those who hate 📖 the LORD, and so bring wrath 📖 on you from the LORD’s presence? 3 📚Nevertheless, there are good 📖 things found in you, for you took away the idolatrous groves 📖 from the land, and prepared your heart to seek God”.
4 📚And Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim 📖, and brought them back to the LORD God of their fathers. 5 📚And he appointed judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, 6 📚and said to the judges, “Watch what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. 7 📚Therefore now let the fear of the LORD 📖 be on you. Be careful what you do, for the LORD our God will have no part in evil or favoritism or taking bribes 📖”.
8 📚Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites and of the priests and of the chiefs of the fathers’ households of Israel, to pronounce the judgments of the LORD, and for controversies. They lived in Jerusalem. 9 📚And he charged them, saying, “You shall do so in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. 10 📚And whatever case comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities 📖, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, you must warn them not to trespass against the LORD 📖, and so bring wrath on you and on your brethren. Do this, and you will not trespass.
11 📚“And, see, Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all the LORD’s matters; and Zebadiah, the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites will be your officials. Act courageously, and the LORD will be with the good 📖”.