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;

And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.

And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-pillars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs and the graven images and the molten images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and strewed it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed to them;