14:020:001 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.
14:020:002 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.
14:020:003 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself
to seek the lord, and
proclaimed
a fast throughout all Judah.
14:020:004 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.
14:020:005 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation
of Judah and
Jerusalem,
in the house of the lord, before the new court,
14:020:006 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?
14:020:007 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?
14:020:008 And they dwelt therein, and have built
thee a sanctuary
therein
for thy name, saying,
14:020:009 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.
14:020:010 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;
14:020:011 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come
to cast us out of
thy
possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
14:020:012 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.
14:020:013 And all Judah stood before the lord,
with their little ones,
their
wives, and their children.
14:020:014 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;
14:020:015 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.


