2 Chronicles 20
20:1And after these things came the sons of Moab, and the sons of Ammon, and with them ones of the Ammonites against Jehoshaphat for war.
20:2And they came and reported to Jehoshaphat, saying, a vast multitude comes against you from the other side of the sea, from Syria; and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar -- this is En-gedi.
20:3And Jehoshaphat feared and put his face to seek after the lord. And he proclaimed a fast in all Judah.
20:4And Judah gathered to seek after the lord; and they came from all the cities of Judah to seek the lord.
20:5And Jehoshaphat rose up in the assembly of Judah in Jerusalem, in the house of the lord, in front of the new courtyard,
20:6and he said, O lord God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? And do you not dominate all the kingdoms of the nations? And is not in your hand strength and dominion, and there is no one to oppose against you?
20:7Are you not our God, the one utterly destroying the ones dwelling this land from in front of your people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham, to your friend into the eon?
20:8And they dwell in it, and built to you in it a sanctuary to your name, saying,
20:9If evils should come against us -- the broadsword, judgment, plague, famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is called upon in this house,) and we will yell to you from our affliction, and you shall hear and shall deliver.
20:10And now, behold, the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, in which you did not grant Israel to go through them, in their coming forth from out of the land of Egypt, for they turned aside from them, and they did not utterly destroy them --
20:11and behold, they make an attempt against us, to come and to cast us from our inheritance, of which you have given to us.
20:12O lord our God, will you not judge them? For there is not to us strength to oppose against this vast multitude coming against us. And we do not know what we should do, but our eyes are unto you.
20:13And all Judah stood before the lord, and their children, and their wives, and their sons.
20:14And Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah the Levite of the sons of Asaph -- came upon him spirit of the lord in the assembly.
20:15And he said, Hearken all Judah, and the ones dwelling in Jerusalem, and king Jehoshaphat! Thus says the lord to you, Do not fear nor be terrified from the face of this vast multitude! for the battle array is not to you, but to God.
20:16Tomorrow go down against them! Behold, they ascend according to the ascent of Ziz; and you shall find them at the tip of the river of the wilderness of Jeruel.
20:17It is not for you to wage war in this. Stand, and perceive, and see the deliverance of the lord with you, O Judah, and Jerusalem! Do not fear nor be terrified tomorrow coming forth for meeting them! for the lord is with you.
20:18And Jehoshaphat bowed upon his face upon the earth; and all Judah and the ones dwelling Jerusalem fell before the lord, to do obeisance to the lord.
20:19And the Levites rose up from the sons of Kohath, and from the sons of the of Korahites, to give praise to the lord, to the God of Israel with a great voice unto the height.
20:20And they rose early in the morning, and they went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa. But in their going forth, Jehoshaphat stood and yelled, and said, Hear me, O Judah, and O ones dwelling in Jerusalem! Entrust in the lord your God! and you will be entrusted. Entrust in his prophet! and your way will be prosperous.
20:21And being advised with the people, and he stationed psalm singers and ones praising the lord, to acknowledge and to praise in the holy, in the going forth before the force. And they said, Give acknowledgment to the lord, for into the eon is his mercy!
20:22And when they began the praise and the acknowledgment, the lord appointed an ambush for the sons of Ammon to wage war against Moab and mount Seir of the ones coming forth against Judah; and they put them to flight.
20:23And there rose up the sons of Ammon and Moab against the ones dwelling in mount Seir, to utterly destroy and to obliterate them. And as they finished off the ones dwelling in Seir, they rose up against one another, and a man took his neighbor for hurt.
20:24And Judah came upon the height in the wilderness, and looked. And they beheld the multitude, and behold, all were dead having fallen upon the ground; there was not one surviving.
20:25And Jehoshaphat came forth, and his people, to despoil their spoils. And they found much cattle, and belongings, and spoils, and desirable items. And they despoiled for themselves. And they were three days plundering the spoils, for there was much.
20:26And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of the Blessing; for there they blessed the lord. On account of this they call the name of that place, Valley of Blessing, until this day.
20:27And every man of Judah returned to Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat the one leading them returned to Jerusalem in great gladness, for the lord gladdened them from their enemies.
20:28And they entered into Jerusalem with stringed instruments, and lutes, and with trumpets into the house of the lord.
20:29And came to pass a change of state of the lord upon all the kingdoms of the earth, in their hearing that the lord waged war with the ones being opponents of Israel.
20:30And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat had peace, and his God rested him round about.
20:31And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah, being thirty-five years old in his taking reign, and twenty and five years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
20:32And he went in the ways of Asa his father. And he did not turn aside from them, to do upright before the lord.
20:33Only the high places he did not remove, and still the people did not straighten out their heart to the lord God of their fathers.
20:34And the rest of the words of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which he wrote down upon a scroll of the kings of Israel.
20:35And after these things, Jehoshaphat king of Judah participated with Ahaziah king of Israel. And he acted lawlessly to do.
20:36And he participated with him to make boats even to go to Tarshish. And he made boats in Ezion Gaber.
20:37And Eliezer the son of Dodavah from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, As you participated with Ahaziah, the lord cut through your works, and your boats were broken, and they were not able to go into Tarshish.