Then all the people went to the temple of Baal, broke its altars and idols to pieces, and executed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars.

Because that wicked woman Athaliah's family members had broken into the Temple of God and used the consecrated implements of the LORD's Temple for service to the Baals,

God helped Uzziah defeat the Philistines, the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example set during his ancestor David's preliminary years by not pursuing the Baals.

Instead, he lived like the kings of Israel did. He cast metal images of Baal,