Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir Defeated

1It 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.

2Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There come a great multitude against you from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.

3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.   turned, determined

4And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

5And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,   temple

6And said, O Lord God of our fathers, are not You God in heaven? and rule not You over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand You?   foreign nations

7Are not You our God, who did drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham Your friend for ever?   offspring

8And they dwelled therein, and have built You a sanctuary therein for Your name, saying,

9If, when evil comes upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in Your presence, (for Your name is in this house,) and cry to You in our affliction, then You will hear and help.   plague

10And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom You would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

11Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

12O our God, will You not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon You.

13And all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

14Then 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;

15And he said, Hearken you^p, all Judah, and you^p inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat, Thus says the Lord to you^p, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours^p, but God’s.   listen

16Tomorrow go you^p down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and you^p shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

17You^p shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves^p, stand you^p still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you^p, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you^p.

18And 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.

19And 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.

20And 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 you^p inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your^p God, so shall you^p be established; believe His prophets, so shall you^p prosper.

21And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers to 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 endures for ever.

22And 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.   destroyed, attacked, killed

23For 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.

24And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked to the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

25And 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.   plunder

26And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the Lord: therefore the name of same place was called, The valley of Berachah, to this day.

27Then 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.

28And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets to the house of the Lord.   lyres

29And 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.

30So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.