Today's Favorite Verse: 2 Chronicles 17:9-10

Today's Favorite Verse: 2 Chronicles 17:9-10

"And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat."

After taking away the high places and groves (idolatry) out of Judah, king Jehoshaphat sent out missionaries to teach the people. Actually he called princes, Levites and priests, sixteen individuals in totaled are named. They teach in the cities of Judah. This reminds of the sons of Mosiah, and the small group they had selected, and how they went to preach the gospel to the Lamanites. The only thing that can change hearts is to first turn that heart to God.

"Now it came to pass that after the sons of Mosiah had done all these things, they took a small number with them and returned to their father, the king, and desired of him that he would grant unto them that they might, with these whom they had selected, go up to the land of Nephi that they might preach the things which they had heard, and that they might impart the word of God to their brethren, the Lamanites—

That perhaps they might bring them to the knowledge of the Lord their God, and convince them of the iniquity of their fathers; and that perhaps they might cure them of their hatred towards the Nephites, that they might also be brought to rejoice in the Lord their God, that they might become friendly to one another, and that there should be no more contentions in all the land which the Lord their God had given them."

(Mosiah 28:1-2)

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