Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 19:3

3 Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee , in that thou hast taken away the g[illegible: 1+ letters]oves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

i. e. Good Works proceeding from an Honest Heart; which God more regards than this particular Errour: and therefore though he will chasten thee. yet he will not utterly destroy thee.

Or, directed or set thy heart; i. e. Thou hast sought and served God with all thy Heart, and not feignedly, as many others do. And this work of preparing or directing his heart is here ascribed to Jehoshaphat, as elsewhere it is attributed to God, Prov. 16. 1. Phil. 2. 13. because it is mans Action, but performed by Gods Grace preventing, enabling, and enclining him to it.

Marginal references: Ch. 17. 4. 6.