17:5a So the LORD established the kingdom in his hand,

Yahweh made the kingdom of Judah strong with Jehoshaphat as its king,
-or-
Yahweh helped King Jehoshaphat to strengthen his kingdom.

17:5b and all Judah brought him tribute,

and all the people of Judah brought presents to Jehoshaphat.
-or-
All the people of his kingdom gave him presents,

17:5c so that he had an abundance of riches and honor.

Because of this he became very rich and famous.
-or-
and so King Jehoshaphat had lots of money and people honored him.

© 2021, 2022 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.