He followed in the footsteps of<n id="1" /> the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

<p class="poetry">But the more I summoned<n id="1" /> them,p> <p class="poetry">the farther they departed from me.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They sacrificed to the Baal idolsp> <p class="poetry">and burned incense to images.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor<n id="1" /> David&#8217;s footsteps at the beginning of his reign.<n id="2" /> He did not seek the Baals,

(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God&#8217;s temple and used all the holy items of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple in their worship of the Baals.)

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> them.