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. 2Ch 19:112Ch 32:1Isa 16:6Isa 8:9-10Psa 83:5-8Rev 3:191Ch 4:412Ch 19:2 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 Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi. Gen 14:71Sa 23:29Gen 14:3Jos 15:62Jos 3:16Num 34:12Sng 1:14 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 1 Dan 9:31Sa 7:62Ch 19:3Est 4:16Jer 36:9Jol 1:14Jol 2:12-18Jon 3:5-9 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. Psa 50:15Psa 60:10-12Psa 34:5-6Psa 69:352Ch 19:5
¶ And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, 2Ch 34:312Ch 6:12-132Ki 19:15-19 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? 1Ch 29:11-12Deu 4:39Dan 4:17Psa 47:81Ki 8:23Act 11:17Dan 4:25Isa 57:15-16 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? 2 Isa 41:8Jas 2:23Gen 12:7Psa 44:2Gen 13:15Jos 24:3Neh 9:81Ch 17:21-24 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, 2Ch 2:42Ch 6:10 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. 2Ch 6:28-301Ki 8:332Ch 6:20Exo 20:241Ki 8:37Mat 18:20Exo 23:21 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; Deu 2:19Deu 2:4-5Deu 2:92Ch 20:1Jdg 11:15-18Num 20:17-212Ch 20:22 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit. Psa 83:3-12Gen 44:4Jdg 11:23-24Jer 18:20Pro 17:13Psa 35:12Psa 7:4 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. Psa 121:1-2Psa 25:15Psa 141:8Psa 123:1-2Deu 32:362Co 1:8-9Psa 9:19Psa 43:1 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children. Ezr 10:1Act 21:5Deu 29:10Jon 3:5
¶ 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; 2Ch 15:12Ch 24:20Act 10:31Act 10:4Dan 9:20-21Isa 58:9Isa 65:24Num 11:25-26 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. 2Ch 32:7-8Deu 31:6Exo 14:13-141Sa 17:47Deu 1:29-30Deu 31:8Isa 41:10-16Deu 20:4 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. 3 4 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. Exo 14:13-142Ch 15:2Isa 41:10Psa 46:10-11Mat 28:202Ch 32:8Lam 3:26Num 14:9 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. Exo 4:312Ch 7:3Gen 24:26Job 1:20Psa 95:6 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. 1Ch 15:16-221Ch 16:421Ch 16:51Ch 23:51Ch 25:1-72Ch 5:13Ezr 3:12-13Neh 12:42-43
¶ 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. Rom 8:31Jhn 11:40Jhn 14:1Heb 11:6Luk 16:31Isa 26:3Jhn 13:20Jhn 5:46-47 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. 5 Psa 107:1Psa 106:12Ch 5:131Ch 16:341Ch 16:29Ezr 3:10-11Psa 29:2Jer 33:11
¶ 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. 6 8 7 1Sa 14:20Ezk 38:212Ki 6:17Isa 19:2Jdg 7:22Psa 35:5-62Ch 13:132Ch 20:10 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. 9 Jdg 7:221Sa 14:20Ezk 35:2-3Gen 36:8-9Jos 24:4Deu 2:5Gen 14:6 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. 10 Isa 37:361Ch 5:22Exo 14:30Ezr 9:14Jer 33:5Psa 110:6 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. 1Sa 30:19-202Ki 7:9-16Num 31:15Ezk 39:8-9Pro 3:15Psa 68:12Exo 12:35-36Exo 3:22
¶ 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. 11 Exo 17:152Ch 5:9Gen 32:20Isa 62:4Luk 1:68Psa 107:21-221Sa 7:122Sa 22:1 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. 12 Neh 12:431Sa 2:12Sa 6:14-15Heb 6:20Isa 35:10Isa 51:11Mic 2:13Psa 20:5 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD. Rev 14:2-31Ch 13:81Ch 23:51Ch 25:62Sa 6:5Psa 149:3Psa 150:3-5Psa 57:8 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. 2Ch 17:102Ki 7:6Exo 23:272Ch 14:14Gen 35:5Exo 15:14-16Jos 2:9-11Jos 5:1 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about. 2Ch 15:152Ch 14:6-72Sa 7:1Jhn 14:27Job 34:29Jos 23:1Pro 16:7
¶ 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. 1Ki 22:41-44 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. 1Ki 15:112Ch 14:11-132Ch 14:2-52Ch 16:7-122Ch 17:3-6Psa 18:21Psa 36:3 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. 2Ch 17:62Ch 19:32Ch 12:141Sa 7:32Ch 14:32Ch 30:19Deu 29:4 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. 13 14 1Ki 16:12Ch 19:21Ki 16:72Ch 12:152Ch 13:222Ch 16:11
¶ And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: 1Ki 22:48-492Ki 1:2-16 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. 1Ki 10:221Ki 9:262Ch 9:21 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. Pro 13:202Ch 19:22Ch 9:21Jos 7:11-121Ki 22:482Ch 16:9Heb 12:6Pro 9:6