It came to passafterthisalso, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and withthemotherbeside the Ammonites, cameagainstJehoshaphat to battle.
ThentherecamesomethattoldJehoshaphat, saying, Therecometh a greatmultitudeagainsttheefrombeyond the sea on thissideSyria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thouover all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thinehand is there not power and might, so thatnone is able to withstandthee?
If, whenevilcomethupon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we standbeforethishouse, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in thishouse,) and cry untothee in our affliction, thenthouwilthear and help.
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mountSeir, whomthouwouldest not let Israelinvade, whentheycame out of the land of Egypt, but theyturnedfromthem, and destroyedthem not;
O our God, wiltthou not judgethem? for we have no mightagainstthisgreatcompanythatcomethagainst us; neitherknow we what to do: but our eyes are uponthee.
ThenuponJahaziel 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;
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thoukingJehoshaphat, Thussaith the LORDunto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of thisgreatmultitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
To morrow go ye downagainstthem: behold, theycome up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shallfindthem at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
Ye shall not need to fight in thisbattle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORDwith you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out againstthem: for the LORDwill be with you.
And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israelwith a loudvoice on high.
And theyroseearly in the morning, and wentforthinto the wilderness of Tekoa: and as theywentforth, Jehoshaphatstood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORDyour God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
And when he had consultedwith the people, he appointedsingersunto the LORD, and thatshouldpraise the beauty of holiness, as theywent out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercyendureth for ever.
And whentheybegan to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushmentsagainst the children of Ammon, Moab, and mountSeir, whichwerecomeagainstJudah; and theyweresmitten.
For the children of Ammon and Moabstood up against the inhabitants of mountSeir, utterly to slay and destroythem: and whenthey had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroyanother.
And whenJudahcametoward the watchtower in the wilderness, theylookedunto the multitude, and, behold, theyweredeadbodiesfallen to the earth, and noneescaped.
And whenJehoshaphat and his peoplecame to takeaway the spoil of them, theyfoundamongthem in abundancebothricheswith the deadbodies, and preciousjewels, whichtheystripped off for themselves, morethantheycouldcarryaway: and theywerethreedays in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
And on the fourth day theyassembledthemselves in the valley of Berachah; for theretheyblessed the LORD: therefore the name of the sameplace was called, The valley of Berachah, untothis day.
Thentheyreturned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalemwith joy; for the LORD had madethem to rejoiceovertheirenemies.
And JehoshaphatreignedoverJudah: he was thirty and fiveyears old when he began to reign, and he reignedtwenty and fiveyears in Jerusalem. And his mother’sname was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
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.
ThenEliezer the son of Dodavah of MareshahprophesiedagainstJehoshaphat, saying, BecausethouhastjoinedthyselfwithAhaziah, the LORDhathbroken thy works. And the shipswerebroken, thattheywere not able to go to Tarshish.