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title = "2 Chronicles 19:1–11"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2Chronicles19.1-11)
Now we are told that Jehoshaphat made it out of the battle safely, despite the disaster that befell Ahab and Israel's armies.
Even though the Lord protected him in the battle when he cried out to Him, the Lord had more to say to Jehoshaphat about the incident.
Jehu the seer tells the king that it was wrong for him to go up and help Ahab at all.
Indeed, even the marriage alliance will turn out poorly for the House of David.
Jehu does not explain what form God's wrath will take when it goes out against Jehoshaphat, but we can infer that any bad thing that happens to him and his family is a good candidate.
However, the Lord acknowledges that Jehoshaphat has loved his God and sought Him both personally and as the king over his people.
He had cut down the Asherah poles, he had sent out priests and Levites throughout the land to teach the people the Law of the Lord.
Now we are told he goes on some kind of revival tour of the kingdom (_v. 4_) and leads the people back to the Lord.
There are a lot of "whitespaces" regarding this, so we can't say a lot about it, but I believe this trip around the country did more to bring people to saving faith in the Lord than anything else in this chapter.
It's the same reason why politicians go campaigning, and why there are still live concerts, even when an engineered recording will be a technically superior performance in many ways.
Human interaction is effective at impacting hearts and minds.
Knowing that the king himself traveled to your village lets you know just how important it is for him to be telling you to follow Yahweh, and you are more likely to follow him in it than if there was just a decree from Jerusalem.
In each place, Jehoshaphat appointed judges over the people to decide cases and to uphold the Law of Moses and the commandments he made as well.
He gives the instructions to judge fairly and rightly, because the Lord is the ultimate judge, and they are to emulate Him in this role.
Additionally, he sets up a higher court in Jerusalem to handle appeals from the lower courts.
Again, these judges—drawn from the priests, Levites, and prominent families' elders—were to pass judgement as deputies of the Lord.
Moses had set up a similar system for the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt, but it makes me wonder how it didn't continue from then until the time of the kings.
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Without Your laws, we descend into chaos. Your commands are right and true.