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And Josaphat stood up in the assembly of Juda in Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, in front of the new court.
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And he said, O Lord God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above, and art not thou Lord of all the kingdoms of the nations? and not in thy hand the might of dominion, and there is no one who can resist thee?
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Art not thou the Lord that didst destroy the inhabitants of this land before the face of thy people Israel, and didst give it to thy beloved seed of Abraham for ever?
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And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name, saying,
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If there should come upon us evils, sword, judgment, pestilence, famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, (for thy name upon this house,) and we will cry to thee because of the affliction, and thou shalt hear, and deliver.
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And now, behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, with regard to whom thou didst not permit Israel to pass through their border, when they had come out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned away from them, and did not destroy them;)—
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yet now, behold, they make attempts against us, to come forth to cast us out from our inheritance which thou gavest us.
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O Lord our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no strength to resist this great multitude that is come against us; and we know not what we shall do to them: but our eyes are toward thee.