You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he chooses.

You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the Lord your God detests.

“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

“Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.

and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the Lord’s command.

He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.

They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,

The people of Judah assembled to ask for the Lord’s help; they came from all the cities of Judah to ask for the Lord’s help.

Deliver to the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,