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# Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat
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Here "was with" is an idiom. Alternate translation: "God supported him" or "God helped him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# walked in the earlier ways of his father
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Here the way a person lives and conducts himself is spoken of as if it were walking. For most of David's life he lived righteously and followed Yahweh closely. Alternate translation: "lived in the earlier ways of his father David" or "lived righteously as his father David had done in his earlier years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# did not seek the Baals
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This means that he did not worship the Baal idols in order to seek help from them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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