| 2 Chronicles 20 - Versions
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- It happened after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
- Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi).
- Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
- Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.
- Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Yahweh, before the new court;
- and he said, "Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in heaven? Aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.
- Didn't you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?
- They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,
- 'If evil comes on us--the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine--we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.'
- Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;
- behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
- Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."
- All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
- Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly;
- and he said, "Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat. Thus says Yahweh to you, 'Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
- Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
- You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.'"
- Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh.
- The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
- They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you shall be established! Believe his prophets, so you shall prosper."
- When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who should sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.
- When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
- For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.
- When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
- 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.
- On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah to this day.
- Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
- They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets to the house of Yahweh.
- The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
- So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest all around.
- Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
- He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.
- Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
- After this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly:
- and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion Geber.
- Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works." The ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
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| 2 Chronicles 20 Text (Hebrew)
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- ויהי אחריכן באו בני־מואב ובני עמון ועמהם מהעמונים על־יהושפט למלחמה׃
- ויבאו ויגידו ליהושפט לאמר בא עליך המון רב מעבר לים מארם והנם בחצצון תמר היא עין גדי׃
- וירא ויתן יהושפט את־פניו לדרוש ליהוה ויקרא־צום על־כל־יהודה׃
- ויקבצו יהודה לבקש מיהוה גם מכל־ערי יהודה באו לבקש את־יהוה׃
- ויעמד יהושפט בקהל יהודה וירושלם בבית יהוה לפני החצר החדשה׃
- ויאמר יהוה אלהי אבתינו הלא אתה־הוא אלהים בשמים ואתה מושל בכל ממלכות הגוים ובידך כח וגבורה ואין עמך להתיצב׃
- הלא אתה אלהינו הורשת את־ישבי הארץ הזאת מלפני עמך ישראל ותתנה לזרע אברהם אהבך לעולם׃
- וישבו־בה ויבנו לך בה מקדש לשמך לאמר׃
- אם־תבוא עלינו רעה חרב שפוט ודבר ורעב נעמדה לפני הבית הזה ולפניך כי שמך בבית הזה ונזעק אליך מצרתנו ותשמע ותושיע׃
- ועתה הנה בני־עמון ומואב והר־שעיר אשר לא־נתתה לישראל לבוא בהם בבאם מארץ מצרים כי סרו מעליהם ולא השמידום׃
- והנה־הם גמלים עלינו לבוא לגרשנו מירשתך אשר הורשתנו׃
- אלהינו הלא תשפט־בם כי אין בנו כח לפני ההמון הרב הזה הבא עלינו ואנחנו לא נדע מה־נעשה כי עליך עינינו׃
- וכל־יהודה עמדים לפני יהוה גם־טפם נשיהם ובניהם׃ ף
- ויחזיאל בן־זכריהו בן־בניה בן־יעיאל בן־מתניה הלוי מן־בני אסף היתה עליו רוח יהוה בתוך הקהל׃
- ויאמר הקשיבו כל־יהודה וישבי ירושלם והמלך יהושפט כה־אמר יהוה לכם אתם אל־תיראו ואל־תחתו מפני ההמון הרב הזה כי לא לכם המלחמה כי לאלהים׃
- מחר רדו עליהם הנם עלים במעלה הציץ ומצאתם אתם בסוף הנחל פני מדבר ירואל׃
- לא לכם להלחם בזאת התיצבו עמדו וראו את־ישועת יהוה עםכם יהודה וירושלם אל־תיראו ואל־תחתו מחר צאו לפניהם ויהוה עםכם׃
- ויקד יהושפט אפים ארצה וכל־יהודה וישבי ירושלם נפלו לפני יהוה להשתחות ליהוה׃
- ויקמו הלוים מן־בני הקהתים ומן־בני הקרחים להלל ליהוה אלהי ישראל בקול גדול למעלה׃
- וישכימו בבקר ויצאו למדבר תקוע ובצאתם עמד יהושפט ויאמר שמעוני יהודה וישבי ירושלם האמינו ביהוה אלהיכם ותאמנו האמינו בנביאיו והצליחו׃
- ויועץ אל־העם ויעמד משררים ליהוה ומהללים להדרת־קדש בצאת לפני החלוץ ואמרים הודו ליהוה כי לעולם חסדו׃
- ובעת החלו ברנה ותהלה נתן יהוה מארבים על־בני עמון מואב והר־שעיר הבאים ליהודה וינגפו׃
- ויעמדו בני עמון ומואב על־ישבי הר־שעיר להחרים ולהשמיד וככלותם ביושבי שעיר עזרו איש־ברעהו למשחית׃
- ויהודה בא על־המצפה למדבר ויפנו אל־ההמון והנם פגרים נפלים ארצה ואין פליטה׃
- ויבא יהושפט ועמו לבז את־שללם וימצאו בהם לרב ורכוש ופגרים וכלי חמדות וינצלו להם לאין משא ויהיו ימים שלושה בזזים את־השלל כי רב־הוא׃
- וביום הרבעי נקהלו לעמק ברכה כי־שם ברכו את־יהוה על־כן קראו את־שם המקום ההוא עמק ברכה עד־היום׃
- וישבו כל־איש יהודה וירושלם ויהושפט בראשם לשוב אל־ירושלם בשמחה כי־שמחם יהוה מאויביהם׃
- ויבאו ירושלם בנבלים ובכנרות ובחצצרות אל־בית יהוה׃
- ויהי פחד אלהים על כל־ממלכות הארצות בשמעם כי נלחם יהוה עם אויבי ישראל׃
- ותשקט מלכות יהושפט וינח לו אלהיו מסביב׃ ף
- וימלך יהושפט על־יהודה בן־שלשים וחמש שנה במלכו ועשרים וחמש שנה מלך בירושלם ושם אמו עזובה בת־שלחי׃
- וילך בדרך אביו אסא ולא־סר ממנה לעשות הישר בעיני יהוה׃
- אך הבמות לא־סרו ועוד העם לא־הכינו לבבם לאלהי אבתיהם׃
- ויתר דברי יהושפט הראשנים והאחרנים הנם כתובים בדברי יהוא בן־חנני אשר העלה על־ספר מלכי ישראל׃
- ואחריכן אתחבר יהושפט מלך־יהודה עם אחזיה מלך־ישראל הוא הרשיע לעשות׃
- ויחברהו עמו לעשות אניות ללכת תרשיש ויעשו אניות בעציון גבר׃
- ויתנבא אליעזר בן־דדוהו ממרשה על־יהושפט לאמר כהתחברך עם־אחזיהו פרץ יהוה את־מעשיך וישברו אניות ולא עצרו ללכת אל־תרשיש׃
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| 2 Chronicles 20 Text (Latin)
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- Post hæc congregati sunt filii Moab, et filii Ammon, et cum eis de Ammonitis, ad Josaphat, ut pugnarent contra eum.
- Veneruntque nuntii, et indicaverunt Josaphat, dicentes : Venit contra te multitudo magna de his locis quæ trans mare sunt, et de Syria : et ecce consistunt in Asasonthamar, quæ est Engaddi.
- Josaphat autem timore perterritus, totum se contulit ad rogandum Dominum, et prædicavit jejunium universo Juda.
- Congregatusque est Judas ad deprecandum Dominum : sed et omnes de urbibus suis venerunt ad obsecrandum eum.
- Cumque stetisset Josaphat in medio cœtu Juda, et Jerusalem, in domo Domini ante atrium novum,
- ait : Domine Deus patrum nostrorum, tu es Deus in cælo, et dominaris cunctis regnis gentium : in manu tua est fortitudo, et potentia, nec quisquam tibi potest resistere.
- Nonne tu, Deus noster, interfecisti omnes habitatores terræ hujus coram populo tuo Israël, et dedisti eam semini Abraham amici tui in sempiternum ?
- Habitaveruntque in ea, et exstruxerunt in illa sanctuarium nomini tuo, dicentes :
- Si irruerint super nos mala, gladius judicii pestilentia, et fames, stabimus coram domo hac in conspectu tuo, in qua invocatum est nomen tuum : et clamabimus ad te in tribulationibus nostris, et exaudies, salvosque facies.
- Nunc igitur ecce filii Ammon, et Moab, et mons Seir, per quos non concessisti Israël ut transirent quando egrediebantur de Ægypto, sed declinaverunt ab eis, et non interfecerunt illos,
- e contrario agunt, et nituntur ejicere nos de possessione, quam tradidisti nobis.
- Deus noster, ergo non judicabis eos ? in nobis quidem non est tanta fortitudo, ut possimus huic multitudini resistere, quæ irruit super nos. Sed cum ignoremus quid agere debeamus, hoc solum habemus residui, ut oculos nostros dirigamus ad te.
- Omnis vero Juda stabat coram Domino cum parvulis, et uxoribus, et liberis suis.
- Erat autem Jahaziel filius Zachariæ filii Banaiæ filii Jehiel filii Mathaniæ, Levites de filiis Asaph, super quem factus est spiritus Domini in medio turbæ,
- et ait : Attendite, omnis Juda, et qui habitatis Jerusalem, et tu, rex Josaphat : hæc dicit Dominus vobis : Nolite timere, nec paveatis hanc multitudinem : non est enim vestra pugna, sed Dei.
- Cras descendetis contra eos : ascensuri enim sunt per clivum nomine Sis, et invenietis illos in summitate torrentis, qui est contra solitudinem Jeruel.
- Non eritis vos qui dimicabitis, sed tantummodo confidenter state, et videbitis auxilium Domini super vos, o Juda, et Jerusalem : nolite timere, nec paveatis : cras egrediemini contra eos, et Dominus erit vobiscum.
- Josaphat ergo, et Juda, et omnes habitatores Jerusalem ceciderunt proni in terram coram Domino, et adoraverunt eum.
- Porro Levitæ de filiis Caath, et de filiis Core laudabant Dominum Deum Israël voce magna in excelsum.
- Cumque mane surrexissent, egressi sunt per desertum Thecue : profectisque eis, stans Josaphat in medio eorum, dixit : Audite me, viri Juda, et omnes habitatores Jerusalem : credite in Domino Deo vestro, et securi eritis : credite prophetis ejus, et cuncta evenient prospera.
- Deditque consilium populo, et statuit cantores Domini, ut laudarent eum in turmis suis, et antecederent exercitum, ac voce consona dicerent : Confitemini Domino, quoniam in æternum misericordia ejus.
- Cumque cœpissent laudes canere, vertit Dominus insidias eorum in semetipsos, filiorum scilicet Ammon, et Moab, et montis Seir, qui egressi fuerant ut pugnarent contra Judam : et percussi sunt.
- Namque filii Ammon, et Moab, consurrexerunt adversum habitatores Seir, ut interficerent et delerent eos : cumque hoc opere perpetrassent, etiam in semetipsos versi, mutuis concidere vulneribus.
- Porro Juda cum venisset ad speculam, quæ respicit solitudinem, vidit procul omnem late regionem plenam cadaveribus, nec superesse quemquam, qui necem potuisset evadere.
- Venit ergo Josaphat, et omnis populus cum eo ad detrahenda spolia mortuorum : inveneruntque inter cadavera variam supellectilem, vestes quoque, et vasa pretiosissima, et diripuerunt ita ut omnia portare non possent, nec per tres dies spolia auferre præ prædæ magnitudine.
- Die autem quarto congregati sunt in Valle benedictionis : etenim quoniam ibi benedixerant Domino, vocaverunt locum illum Vallis benedictionis usque in præsentem diem.
- Reversusque est omnis vir Juda, et habitatores Jerusalem, et Josaphat ante eos, in Jerusalem cum lætitia magna, eo quod dedisset eis Dominus gaudium de inimicis suis.
- Ingressique sunt in Jerusalem cum psalteriis, et citharis, et tubis in domum Domini.
- Irruit autem pavor Domini super universa regna terrarum cum audissent quod pugnasset Dominus contra inimicos Israël.
- Quievitque regnum Josaphat, et præbuit ei Deus pacem per circuitum.
- Regnavit igitur Josaphat super Judam, et erat triginta quinque annorum cum regnare cœpisset : viginti autem et quinque annis regnavit in Jerusalem, et nomen matris ejus Azuba filia Selahi.
- Et ambulavit in via patris suis Asa, nec declinavit ab ea, faciens quæ placita erant coram Domino.
- Verumtamen excelsa non abstulit, et adhuc populus non direxerat cor suum ad Dominum Deum patrum suorum.
- Reliqua autem gestorum Josaphat priorum, et novissimorum, scripta sunt in verbis Jehu filii Hanani, quæ digessit in libros regum Israël.
- Post hæc iniit amicitias Josaphat rex Juda cum Ochozia rege Israël, cujus opera fuerunt impiissima.
- Et particeps fuit ut facerent naves, quæ irent in Tharsis : feceruntque classem in Asiongaber.
- Prophetavit autem Eliezer filius Dodau de Maresa ad Josaphat, dicens : Quia habuisti fœdus cum Ochozia, percussit Dominus opera tua, contritæque sunt naves, nec potuerunt ire in Tharsis.
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| 2 Chronicles 20 Text (KJV)
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- 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.
- 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 Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi.
- And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
- 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.
- And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
- 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?
- 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?
- And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
- 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.
- 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;
- Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
- 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.
- And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
- 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;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
- 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.
- So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
- 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.
- 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.
- Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
- 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.
- And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
- And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
- 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.
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