2 Chronicles 20 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And after this it came to be that the children of Mo’aḇ

² And they came and spoke to Yehoshaphat, saying, “A great army is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Aram. And see, they are in Ḥ

³ And Yehoshaphat was afraid, and set his face to seek יהוה, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Yehuḏ

⁴ And Yehuḏ

⁵ And Yehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Yehuḏ

⁶ and said, “O יהוה  Elohim of our fathers, are You not Elohim in the heavens, and do You not rule over all the reigns of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to stand against You?

⁷ “Are You not our Elohim? You have driven out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Yisra’ĕ

⁸ “And they dwell in it, and have built You a set-apart place in it for Your Name, saying,

⁹ ‘If evil does come upon us, such as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or scarcity of food, we shall stand before this House and in Your presence – for Your Name is in this House – and cry out to You in our distress, and You do hear and save.’

¹⁰ “And now, see, the children of Ammon and Mo’aḇ

¹¹ and see, they are repaying us by coming in to drive us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.

¹² “O our Elohim, would You not judge them? For we are powerless against this great army that is coming against us. And we do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

¹³ And all Yehuḏ

¹⁴ And the Spirit of יהוה  came upon Yaḥ

¹⁵ and he said, “Listen, all Yehuḏ

¹⁶ ‘Go down against them tomorrow. See, they are coming up by the ascent of Tsits, and you shall find them at the end of the wadi before the Wilderness of Yeru’ĕ

¹⁷ ‘It is not for you to fight in this. Position yourselves, stand still and see the deliverance of יהוה  with you, O Yehuḏ

¹⁸ And Yehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Yehuḏ

¹⁹ And the Lĕ

²⁰ And they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Teqowa. And as they went out, Yehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Yehuḏ

²¹ And after consulting with the people, he appointed those who should sing to יהוה, and who should praise the splendour of set-apartness, as they went out before the army and were saying, “Give thanks to יהוה, for His kindness is everlasting.”

²² And when they began singing and praising, יהוה  set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Mo’aḇ

²³ Then the children of Ammon and Mo’aḇ

²⁴ And when Yehuḏ

²⁵ And Yehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, and they found among them a great amount of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could take away. And they were three days plundering the spoil, for it was much.

²⁶ And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beraḵ

²⁷ Then they returned, every man of Yehuḏ

²⁸ And they came to Yerushalayim, with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the House of יהוה.

²⁹ And the fear of Elohim was on all the reigns of the lands when they heard that יהוה  had fought against the enemies of Yisra’ĕ

³⁰ Then the reign of Yehoshaphat was at peace, for his Elohim gave him rest on all sides.

³¹ Thus Yehoshaphat reigned over Yehuḏ

³² And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the eyes of יהוה.

³³ Only, the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts for the Elohim of their fathers.

³⁴ And the rest of the acts of Yehoshaphat, the first and the last, see, they are written in the book of Yĕ

³⁵ And after this Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehuḏ

³⁶ And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Etsyon Geḇ

³⁷ Then Eliʽ