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 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 cometh a great multitude against thee 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, [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?
 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?
 20:8  And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary
therein for thy name, saying,
 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.
 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;
 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.
 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.
 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 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.
 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.
 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.
 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 ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be
established; believe his prophets, so shall ye 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 [endureth] 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  Howbeit 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 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.