5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD,
before the new court,
6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, artnot thou God in heaven? and rulest notthou over all
the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there notpower and might, so that none is
able to withstand thee?
7 Artnot thou our God, whodidst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel,
and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
9 If, whenevil cometh upon us, asthe sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand
before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name isin this house,) and cry unto thee in our
affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
10 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;
11 Behold, I say, howthey reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast
given us to inherit.
12 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 areupon thee.
13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
14 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;
15 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 isnot yours, but God's.
16 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.
17 Ye shall not needto 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 bewith you.
18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with hisface to the ground: and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
19 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.
20 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.
21 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 endurethfor ever.
22 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.
23 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.
24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the
multitude, and, behold, they weredead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
25 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.
26 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.
27 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.
28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the
LORD.
29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of thosecountries, when they had heard that
the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he wasthirty and five years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasAzubah the
daughter of Shilhi.
32 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.
33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their
hearts unto the God of their fathers.
34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they arewritten in the book
of Jehu the son of Hanani, who ismentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who
did very wickedly:
36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in
Eziongeber.
37 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.
1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David.
And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah,
and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these werethe sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with
fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he wasthe firstborn.
4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and
slew all his brethren with the sword, and diversalso of the princes of Israel.
5 Jehoram wasthirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in
Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the
daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which wasevil in the eyes of the LORD.
7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had
made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a
king.
9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by
night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time alsodid

Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of
Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of
David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the
ways of Asa king of Judah,
13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain
thy brethren of thy father's house, which werebetter than thyself:
14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives,
and all thy goods:
15 And thou shalt havegreat sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by
reason of the sickness day by day.
16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the
Arabians, that werenear the Ethiopians:
17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was
found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left
him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out
by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him,
like the burning of his fathers.
20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight
years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not
in the sepulchres of the kings.
1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the
band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the
son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Forty and two years old wasAhaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in
Jerusalem. His mother's name also wasAthaliah the daughter of Omri.
3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do
wickedly.
4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his
counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to
war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at
Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he
went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off
the house of Ahab.
8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and
found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah,
he slew them.
9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to
Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he isthe son of
Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to
keep still the kingdom.