2Chronicles:20:1-30
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And it happened after this that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon ,
along with others besides the Ammonites ,
came to battle against Jehoshaphat .
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And some came and reported to Jehoshaphat ,
saying ,
A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea ,
from Syria ;
and they are in Hazazon Tamar (
which is En Gedi ).
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And Jehoshaphat feared ,
and set his face to seek Jehovah ,
and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah .
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So Judah gathered together to seek the face of Jehovah ;
and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the face of Jehovah .
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And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem ,
in the house of Jehovah ,
before the new court ,
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and said :
O Jehovah the God of our fathers ,
are You not God in Heaven ,
and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations ,
and in Your hand is there not power and might ,
so that no one is able to withstand You ?
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Are You not our God ,
who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel ,
and gave it to the seed of Abraham Your friend forever ?
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And they dwell in it ,
and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name ,
saying ,
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If evil comes upon us ;
sword ,
judgment ,
pestilence ,
or famine ;
we will stand before this house and before Your face (
for Your name is in this house ),
and cry out to You in our affliction ,
and You will hear and save .
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And now ,
behold ,
the sons of Ammon ,
Moab ,
and Mount Seir ,
whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt ,
but they turned aside from them and have not destroyed them .
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Behold ,
they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit .
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O our God ,
will You not judge them ?
For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us ;
nor do we know what to do ,
but our eyes are upon You .
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Now all Judah ,
with their little ones ,
their wives ,
and their children ,
were standing before Jehovah .
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Then the Spirit of Jehovah came 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 ,
in the midst of the assembly .
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And he said ,
Give attention ,
all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
and you ,
O King Jehoshaphat .
Thus says Jehovah to you :
Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude ,
for the battle is not yours ,
but God Â’
s .
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Tomorrow go down against them .
Behold ,
they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz ,
and you shall find them at the end of the valley before the wilderness of Jeruel .
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You shall not fight in this battle .
Station yourselves ,
stand your ground and see the salvation of Jehovah for you ,
O Judah and Jerusalem .
Do not fear or be dismayed ;
tomorrow go out before them ,
for Jehovah is with you .
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And Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground ,
and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Jehovah to prostrate themselves before Jehovah .
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And the Levites of the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites stood up to praise Jehovah the God of Israel with loud voices on high .
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So they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa ;
and as they went out ,
Jehoshaphat stood and said ,
Listen to me ,
O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem :
Trust in Jehovah your God ,
and you shall be established ;
believe His prophets ,
and you shall prosper .
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And when he had consulted with the people ,
he appointed those who should sing unto Jehovah ,
and who should praise the glory of holiness ,
as they went out before the army and were saying :
Give thanks unto Jehovah ,
for His mercy is eternal .
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And when they began to cry out in songs of praise ,
Jehovah set ambushes against the sons of Ammon ,
Moab ,
and Mount Seir ,
who had come against Judah ;
and they were smitten .
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For the sons of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them .
And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir ,
they helped to destroy one another .
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So when Judah had come to the lookout point at the wilderness ,
they looked toward the multitude ;
and behold ,
the corpses ,
fallen to the earth .
No one had escaped .
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And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder the spoils ,
they found among them an abundance of property on the corpses ,
with precious jewelry ,
which they stripped off for themselves ,
more than they could carry away ;
and they were three days plundering the spoils because there was so much .
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And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah ,
for there they blessed Jehovah ;
therefore the name of that place was called The Valley of Berachah to this day .
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Then they returned ,
every man of Judah and Jerusalem ,
with Jehoshaphat at the head of them ,
to go back to Jerusalem with joy ;
for Jehovah had made them rejoice over their enemies .
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So they came to Jerusalem ,
with lutes and harps and trumpets ,
to the house of Jehovah .
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And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that Jehovah had fought against the enemies of Israel .
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So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was quiet ,
for his God gave him rest all around .
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