and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Jehoshaphat, having done what he could to make his people good, is here providing, if possible, to keep them so by the influence of a settled magistracy. He had sent preachers among them, to instruct them (Ch2 17:7-9), and that provision did well; but now he saw it further requisite to send judges among them, to see the laws put in execution, and to be a terror to evil-doers.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 19:5-11
Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you,.... And act as having that before your eyes, and on your hearts: take heed and do it; do the commands enjoined them by him, and do judgment according to the law of God: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God; none in his nature, nor in his law; none commanded nor...
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] with you in the judgment. (c) Both to preserve you if you do justly or to punish you, if you do the contrary.