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congregation;
15
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king
Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go
out against them: for the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, worshipping the
L
ORD
.
19
And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites,
stood up to praise the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, and that should praise
the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the L
ORD
; for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
22
And when they began to sing and to praise, the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
: 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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
.
29
And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of
those
countries, when they had heard that the
L
ORD
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 L
ORD
.
33
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the
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