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Yehudah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Yehudah they came to seek the LORD.
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Yehoshafat stood in the assembly of Yehudah and Yerushalayim, in the house of the LORD, before the new court;
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and he said, LORD, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in heaven? and aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
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Did not you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Yisra'el, and give it to the seed of Avraham your friend forever?
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They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying,
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If evil come on us, the sword, judgment, or 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.
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Now, behold, the children of `Ammon and Mo'av and Mount Se`ir, whom you would not let Yisra'el invade, when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;
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behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
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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 out eyes are on you.
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All Yehudah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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Then on Yachazi'el the son of Zekharyah, the son of Benayah, the son of Ye`i'el, the son of Mattanyah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaf, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the assembly;