These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 20
Tanakh 37 verses
- 1 And it came to pass after this, that the children of , and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
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Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying: ‘There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea from Aram; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar’—the same is En-gedi.
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- 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto ; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all .
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And gathered themselves together, to seek help of ; even out of all the cities of they came to seek .
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And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of and , in the house of , before the new court;
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- 6 and he said: ‘O , the of our fathers, art not Thou alone in ? and art not Thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in Thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee.
- 7 Didst not Thou, O our , drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people , and gavest it to the seed of Thy friend for ever?
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And they dwelt therein, and have built Thee a therein for Thy , saying:
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If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before Thee—for Thy is in this house—and cry unto Thee in our affliction, and Thou wilt and .
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- 10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and and mount Seir, whom Thou wouldest not let invade, when they came out of the land of , but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not;
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behold, they render unto us [evil], to come to cast us out of Thy possession, which Thou hast given us to inherit.
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- 12 O our , wilt Thou not execute judgment on them? for we have no might against this great multitude that cometh against us; neither we what to do; but our eyes are upon Thee.’
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And all stood before , with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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- 14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of , the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the , of the sons of Asaph, came the of in the midst of the congregation;
- 15 and he said: ‘Hearken ye, all , and ye inhabitants of , and thou Jehoshaphat: thus saith unto you: Fear not ye, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but Elohim’s.
- 16 To-morrow go ye down against them; behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
- 17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle; set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the of with you, O and ; not, nor be dismayed; to-morrow go out against them; for is with you.’
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And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his to the ground; and all and the inhabitants of fell down before , worshipping .
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- 19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to , the of , with an exceeding loud voice.
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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 , and ye inhabitants of ; believe in your , so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.’
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And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed them that should sing unto , and in the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and say: ‘Give thanks unto , for His endureth for ever.’
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1 Chronicles 16:34 2 Chronicles 5:13 Psalm 107:1 1 Chronicles 16:29 Psalm 29:2 Psalm 106:1 Ezra 3:10-11 1 Chronicles 16:41 Jeremiah 33:11 2 Chronicles 7:6 Psalm 90:17 Psalm 96:9 2 Chronicles 7:3 Psalm 136:1-26 Proverbs 11:14 Nehemiah 12:27 1 Chronicles 13:1-2 Psalm 50:2 2 Chronicles 29:25-30 2 Chronicles 30:21 - 22 And when they began to sing and to , set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, , and mount Seir, that were come against ; and they were smitten.
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For the children of Ammon and 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.
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And when came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked upon the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none that escaped.
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- 25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
- 26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed ; therefore the of that place was called The valley of Beracah, unto this day.
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Then they returned, every man of and , and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go back to with joy; for had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
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- 28 And they came to with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of .
- 29 And a terror from was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that fought against the enemies of .
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So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his gave him rest round about.
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And Jehoshaphat reigned over ; he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in ; and his mother’s was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
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- 32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of .
- 33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the of their fathers.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of .
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And after this did Jehoshaphat of join himself with Ahaziah of ; the same did very wickedly;
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and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
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- 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying: ‘Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, hath made a breach in thy works.’ And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.