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2 Chronicles 19:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
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Quick Meaning
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jehu rebukes the returned king.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 19:1–3
Read 2 Chronicles 19:1 with 19:1–3. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Jehoshaphat returns safely, but Jehu asks whether he should help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD, while still recognizing good in his reforms.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Jehu rebukes the returned king,” 2 Chronicles 19:1 opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech through the wording “And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: Survival is not treated as vindication; the mixed evaluation opens a corrective phase. 2 Chronicles 18:28–34 has just established this prior movement: Ahab disguises himself while Jehoshaphat wears royal robes, enemy captains pursue Jehoshaphat until he cries out, a random arrow wounds Ahab, and he dies facing Aram. Together those details explain why “Jehu rebukes the returned king” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 2 Chronicles 19:1–3 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 19:1–3 forms the complete movement “Jehu rebukes the returned king”: Jehoshaphat returns safely, but Jehu asks whether he should help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD, while still recognizing good in his reforms.
Verse 1. 1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
Verse 2. 2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Verse 3. 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
What Remains True
Teaching, courts, alliances, prophecy, fear, prayer, conflict, and deliverance must be judged together; visible success does not turn every decision into divine approval. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Jehoshaphat returns safely, but Jehu asks whether he should help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD, while still recognizing good in his reforms. In 2 Chronicles 19:1, the concrete line “And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.” Build courts, teaching, alliances, crisis plans, and public communication that can hear dissent, admit uncertainty, protect affected people, and combine prayer with accountable action. This response follows from the unit's own movement: Jehoshaphat returns safely, but Jehu asks whether he should help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD, while still recognizing good in his reforms.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 19:1–3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 19:1–3
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 19:1–3, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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