2 Chronicles 20
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It 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.
Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

O Lord

Exodus 3:6,15,16 Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, …

1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…

God in heaven

Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the …

Joshua 2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither …

1 Kings 8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven …

Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he has done whatever he has pleased.

Isaiah 57:15,16 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

Isaiah 66:1 Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my …

Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, …

rulest not

1 Chronicles 29:11,12 Yours, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and …

Psalm 47:2,8 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth…

Jeremiah 27:5-8 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, …

Daniel 4:17,25,32-35 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the …

in thine hand

1 Chronicles 29:11,12 Yours, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and …

Psalm 62:11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs to God.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your …

none is able

Acts 11:17 For as much then as God gave them the like gift as he did to us, …

Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

wilt

Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, …

Judges 11:27 Why I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me…

1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the …

Psalm 7:6,8 Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage …

Psalm 9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight.

Psalm 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O …

Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: …

Isaiah 42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in …

Joel 3:12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: …

Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat …

we have

2 Samuel 14:11 Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, …

1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and …

2 Corinthians 1:8,9 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which …

neither

2 Kings 6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone …

our eyes

Psalm 25:15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Psalm 121:1,2 I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help…

Psalm 123:1,2 To you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens…

Psalm 141:8 But my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave …

Jonah 2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward …

And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Then 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;
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
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.

cliff [heb] ascent
Ziz The cliff of Ziz was probably near Ziza, which Ptolemy places in Arabia Petraea, long.

brook. or, valley
the wilderness The wilderness of jeruel seems, form ver.

2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness …

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

not need

2 Chronicles 20:22,23 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes …

Exodus 14:13,14,25 And Moses said to the people, Fear you not, stand still, and see …

stand ye still

Psalm 46:10,11 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, …

Isaiah 30:7,15 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore …

Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation …

Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation …

for the Lord

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

2 Chronicles 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help …

Numbers 14:9 Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people …

Psalm 46:7,11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah…

Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …

Isaiah 41:10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …

Amos 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the …

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, …

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

And 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.
And 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.
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 LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto 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 endureth for ever.

consulted

1 Chronicles 13:1,2 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, …

Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors …

appointed

2 Chronicles 29:25-30 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with …

2 Chronicles 30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the …

Ezra 3:10,11 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, …

Nehemiah 12:27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites …

that should praise [heb] praisers of
the beauty

1 Chronicles 16:29 Give to the LORD the glory due to his name: bring an offering, and …

Psalm 29:2 Give to the LORD the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the …

Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

Psalm 90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you …

Psalm 96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

Praise the Lord

2 Chronicles 5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, …

2 Chronicles 7:3,6 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and …

1 Chronicles 16:34,41 O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever…

Ezra 3:11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks to …

Psalm 106:1 Praise you the LORD. O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for …

Psalm 107:1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

Psalm 136:1-26 O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever…

Jeremiah 33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, …

And 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.

when they [heb] in the time that they, etc.
to sing and to. [heb] in singing and.
the Lord set ambushments Houbigant's version is, `the Lord set against the children of Amon and Moab ambushments of those who came from mount Seir against Judah; and the children of Ammon and Moab were smitten: but they afterwards rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, and utterly destroyed them who being destroyed, they rose up one against one another, and mutually destroyed each other.'

Judges 7:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's …

1 Samuel 14:16,20 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, …

2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that …

Psalm 35:5,6 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD …

Isaiah 19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall …

Ezekiel 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, …

were smitten. or, smote one another.

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

Berachah. that is, Blessing. Having previously sought deliverance by fasting and prayer, and received the assurance of it with grateful joy, Jehoshaphat and his army returned immediate and fervent thanks and praise to the Lord, who had in so wonderful a manner performed his promise. Scott, who quotes the following from Bp. Patrick: `They did not return every man to his own home; but first went back to Jerusalem, to bless the Lord again for hearing their prayer and making good his promises.'

blessed

Exodus 15:1-19 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the LORD, …

2 Samuel 22:1 And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that …

Psalm 103:1,2 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name…

Psalm 107:21,22 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful …

Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people,

Revelation 19:1-6 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, …

the name

Genesis 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that …

Genesis 32:20 And say you moreover, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For …

Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and …

Isaiah 62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any …

Acts 1:19 And it was known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem; so as that field …

unto this day

2 Chronicles 5:9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves …

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 LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
And 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.
So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
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.
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 LORD.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
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.
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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