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II CHRONICLES ยท Chapter 20
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.
20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There comes
a great multitude against you from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and,
behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and
proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
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.
20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem,
in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven?
and rule not you over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in your hand
is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand you?
20:7 Are not you our God, who did drive out the inhabitants of this
land before your people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham your
friend for ever?
20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein
for your name, saying,
20:9 If, when evil comes upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence,
or famine, we stand before this house, and in your presence, (for your
name is in this house,) and cry unto you in our affliction, then you will
hear and help.
20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir,
whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of
Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of
your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
20:12 O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against
this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but
our eyes are upon you.
20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones,
their wives, and their children.
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;
20:15 And he said, Hearken all of you, all Judah, and all of you inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat, Thus says the LORD unto you, Be
not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle
is not yours, but God's.
20:16 Tomorrow go all of you down against them: behold, they come up
by the cliff of Ziz; and all of you shall find them at the end of the brook,
before the wilderness of Jeruel.
20:17 All of you shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves,
stand all of you still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah
and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them:
for the LORD will be with you.
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.
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.
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 all of you inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your
God, so shall all of you be established; believe his prophets, so shall
all of you prosper.
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 endures
for ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets
unto the house of the LORD.
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.
20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest
round about.
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.
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.
20:33 Nevertheless the high places were not taken away: for as yet
the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
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.
20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish:
and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against
Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, the
LORD has broken your works. And the ships were broken, that they were not
able to go to Tarshish.
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