2 Chronicles 17:3

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in David's early ways and did not seek the Baals. God's presence rests on a king devoted to Him.

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• Isa 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
• 2 Kgs 22:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
• 2 Tim 4:22The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.
• Ps 46:11The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
• Gen 39:21the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
• Gen 39:2–3And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.
• Josh 1:9Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
• Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• Judg 6:12And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
• 1 Chr 22:18“Is not the LORD your God with you, and has He not granted you rest on every side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land has been subdued before the LORD and His people.
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
• Josh 1:5No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
• Isa 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
• 2 Sam 5:10And David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.
• 2 Chr 15:8–13When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
• Matt 18:20For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
• 2 Sam 8:15Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
• 2 Kgs 18:3And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
• Jer 2:23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
• 2 Chr 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
• Ps 46:7The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
• Exod 4:12Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”
• Exod 3:12“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
• 1 Kgs 11:6So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
• Ps 132:1–5A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,
• Judg 2:11And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
• 1 Kgs 15:3–4And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
• 2 Kgs 16:2Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
• 2 Chr 14:11Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”
• 2 Chr 14:2–5And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
• Judg 8:33And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
• Judg 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
• 2 Kgs 14:3And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.

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