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Chapter 20 It came to pass after this
also, that the children of Moab and the

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children of Ammon, and with them other
beside the Ammonites, came against

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Jehoshaphat to battle.

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Then there came some that told
Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great

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multitude against thee from beyond the sea
on this side Syria.

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And behold, they be in Hazazon tamer,
which is in Gedi.

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And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to
seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast

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throughout all Judah.

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And Judah gathered themselves together to
ask help of the Lord.

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Even out of all the cities of Judah they
came to seek the Lord.

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And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation
of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of

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the Lord before the new court,
and said, O Lord God of our fathers,

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art not thou God in heaven, and rulest not
thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen?

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And in thine hand is there not power and
might, so that none is able to withstand

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thee?

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Art not thou our God, who didst drive out
the inhabitants of this land before thy

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people Israel, and gavest it to the seed
of Abraham thy friend for ever?

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And they dwelt therein, and have built
thee a sanctuary therein for thy name,

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saying, If, when evil cometh upon us as
the sword, judgment, or pestilence,

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or famine, we stand before this house,
and in thy presence, for thy name is in

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this house, and cry unto thee in our
affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

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And now, behold, the children of Ammon,
and Moab, and Mount Seir, whom thou

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wouldst not let Israel invade,
when they came out of the land of Egypt,

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but they turned from them, and destroyed
them not.

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Behold, I say, how they reward us,
to come to cast us out of thy possession,

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which thou hast given us to inherit.

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O our God, wilt thou not judge them?

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For we have no might against this great
company that cometh against us.

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Neither know we what to do, but our eyes
are upon thee.

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And all Judah stood before the Lord,
with their little ones, their wives,

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and their children.

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Then upon Jehaziel, the son of Zechariah,
the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel,

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the son of Mataniah, a Levite of the sons
of Asaph, came the Spirit of the Lord in

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the midst of the congregation.

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And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah,
and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,

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and thou King Jehoshaphat.

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Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not
afraid nor dismayed by reason of this

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great multitude, for the battle is not
yours, but God's.

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Tomorrow go ye down against them.

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Behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz,
and ye shall find them at the end of the

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brook, before the wilderness of Jerul.

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Ye shall not need to fight in this battle.

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Set yourselves, stand ye still,
and see the salvation of the Lord with

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you, O Judah and Jerusalem.

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Fear not, nor be dismayed.

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Tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord
will be with you.

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And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his
face to the ground, and all Judah and the

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inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the
Lord, worshipping the Lord.

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And the Levites, of the children of the
Kohathites, and of the children of the

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Kohites, stood up to praise the Lord God
of Israel with a loud voice on high.

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And they rose early in the morning,
and went forth into the wilderness of

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Tekoa.

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And as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood
and said, Hear me, O Judah and ye

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inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye
be established.

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Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

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And when he had consulted with the people,
he appointed singers unto the Lord,

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and that should praise the beauty of
holiness.

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As they went out before the army,
and to say, Praise the Lord, for his mercy

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endureth forever.

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And when they began to sing and to praise,
the Lord set ambushments against the

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children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir,
which will come against Judah.

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And they were smitten.

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For the children of Ammon and Moab stood
up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir,

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utterly to slay and destroy them.

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And when they had made an end of the
inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to

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destroy another.

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And when Judah came toward the watchtower
in the wilderness, they looked unto the

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multitude, and behold, there were dead
bodies fallen to the earth, and none

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escaped.

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And when Jehoshaphat and his people came
to take away the spoil of them,

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they found among them in abundance both
riches with the dead bodies and precious

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jewels, which they stripped off for
themselves, more than they could carry

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away.

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And they were three days in gathering over
the spoil.

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It was so much.

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And on the fourth day they assembled
themselves in the valley of Berekeh.

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For there they blessed the Lord.

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Therefore the name of the same place was
called the Valley of Berekeh unto this

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day.

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Then they returned, every man of Judah and
Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the

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forefront of them, to go again to
Jerusalem with joy.

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For the Lord had made them to rejoice over
their enemies.

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And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries
and harps and trumpets unto the house of

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the Lord.

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And the fear of God was on all the
kingdoms of those countries, when they had

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heard that the Lord fought against the
enemies of Israel.

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

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And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah.

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He was thirty and five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned twenty and

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five years in Jerusalem.

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And his mother's name was Azuba,
the daughter of Shilhai.

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And he walked in the way of Asa,
his father, and departed not from it,

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doing that which was right in the sight of
the Lord.

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Howbeit the high places were not taken
away, for as yet the people had not

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prepared their hearts unto the God of
their fathers.

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Now the rest of the Acts of Jehoshaphat,
first and last, behold, they are written

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in the book of Jehu, the son of Hanani,
who is mentioned in the book of the kings

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of Israel.

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And after this did Jehoshaphat,
king of Judah, join himself with Ahaziah,

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king of Israel, who did very wickedly.

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And he joined himself with him to make
ships to go to Tarshish.

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And they made the ships in Ezean-geba.

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Then Eliezer, the son of Dodovah of
Moreshah, prophesied against Jehoshaphat,

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saying, Because thou hast joined thyself
with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy

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works.

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And the ships were broken, that they were
not able to go to Tarshish.