2 Chronicles 20:1-13 ▼

1 It happened after this, that the people of Moab, and the people of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

2 Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, |A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Edom. Look, they are in Hazazon Tamar| (that is, En Gedi).

3 Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to the LORD. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

4 Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help from the LORD. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD.

5 Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court;

6 and he said, |O LORD, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in heaven? Aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

7 Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

8 They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

9 If evil comes on us--the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine--we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.'

10 Now, look, the people 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 aside from them, and did not destroy them;

11 look, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

12 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 on you.|

13 All Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.