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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. 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. 3 And Je­hoshaphat feared, and set him­self to seek the LORD, and pro­claimed a fast through­out all Ju­dah. 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. 5 And Je­hoshaphat stood in the con­gre­ga­tion of Ju­dah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, be­fore the new court, 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? 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? 8 And they dwelt there­in, and have built thee a sanc­tu­ary there­in for thy name, say­ing, 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. 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; 11 Be­hold, I say, how they re­ward us, to come to cast us out of thy pos­ses­sion, which thou hast giv­en us to in­her­it. 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. 13 And all Ju­dah stood be­fore the LORD, with their lit­tle ones, their wives, and their chil­dren. 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; 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalter­ies and harps and trum­pets unto the house of the LORD. 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. 30 So the realm of Je­hoshaphat was qui­et: for his God gave him rest round about. 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. 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. 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. 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. 35 And af­ter this did Je­hoshaphat king of Ju­dah join him­self with Ahazi­ah king of Is­rael, who did very wicked­ly: 36 And he joined him­self with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezionge­ber. 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.