And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baals;

And all the people went into the house of Baal, and broke it down; and they broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

For the wicked Athaliah and her sons had devastated the house of God; and also all the hallowed things of the house of Jehovah had they employed for the Baals.

And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-Baal, and the Maonites.

but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made molten images for the Baals;

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

They tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars that were high above them he chopped down; also the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images he broke in pieces and ground to powder and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.