2CH-20:1 It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of

Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside

the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

2CH-20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying,

There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea

on this side Syria; and, behold, they [be] in Hazazontamar,

which [is] Engedi.

2CH-20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the

LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2CH-20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help]

of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to

seek the LORD.

2CH-20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and

Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

2CH-20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God

in heaven? and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of the

heathen? and in thine hand [is there not] power and might, so

that none is able to withstand thee?

2CH-20:7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the

inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it

to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

2CH-20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary

therein for thy name, saying,

2CH-20:9 If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword,

judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house,

and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry

unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

2CH-20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and

mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they

came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and

destroyed them not;

2CH-20:11 Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast

us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

2CH-20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no

might against this great company that cometh against us; neither

know we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.

2CH-20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little

ones, their wives, and their children.

2CH-20:14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of

Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the

sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the

congregation;

2CH-20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants

of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD

unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great

multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's.

2CH-20:16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come

up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the

brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2CH-20:17 Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set

yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD

with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to

morrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you.

2CH-20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the

ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell

before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

2CH-20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites,

and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD

God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

2CH-20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth

into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth,

Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants

of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be

established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2CH-20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he

appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the

beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say,

 Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

2CH-20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD

set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount

Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

2CH-20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against

the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy

[them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,

 every one helped to destroy another.

2CH-20:24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the

wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they

[were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

2CH-20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away

the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both

riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they

stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away:

and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so

much.

2CH-20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the

valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore

the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah,

unto this day.

2CH-20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem,

and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to

Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over

their enemies.

2CH-20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps

and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

2CH-20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those]

countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the

enemies of Israel.

2CH-20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God

gave him rest round about.

2CH-20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty

and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty

and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Azubah

the daughter of Shilhi.

2CH-20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and

departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight

of the LORD.

2CH-20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as

yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of

their fathers.

2CH-20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and

last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Jehu the son of

Hanani, who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

2CH-20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join

himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

2CH-20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to

Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.

2CH-20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied

against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself

with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were

broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

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