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After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.
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Messengers came and told Jehoshaphat, "A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; already they are at Hazazon-tamar" (that is, En-gedi).
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Jehoshaphat was afraid; he set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
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Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the towns of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
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Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,
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and said, "O Lord, God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven? Do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In your hand are power and might, so that no one is able to withstand you.
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Did you not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham?
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They have lived in it, and in it have built you a sanctuary for your name, saying,
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"If disaster comes upon 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 distress, and you will hear and save.'
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See now, the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—