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at Ierusalem, and returned and went through on all the kingdomes of the heathen? and in
the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, thine hande is power and might, and none is
and brought them againe vnto the Lord God of able to withstand thee. 7 Diddest not thou our
their fathers. 5 And hee set iudges in the lande God cast out ye inhabitants of this lande before
throughout all the strong cities of Iudah, citie thy people Israel, and gauest it to the seede of
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by citie, 6 And said to the iudges, Take heede Abraham thy friende for euer? And they dwelt
what ye doe: for yee execute not the iudgements therein, and haue built thee a Sanctuarie therein
of man, but of the Lord, and he will be with for thy Name, saying, 9 If euill come vpon vs,
you in the cause and iudgement. 7 Wherefore as the sworde of iudgement, or pestilence, or
nowe let the feare of the Lord be vpon you: take famine, we will stande before this house and in
heede, and do it: for there is no iniquitie with thy presence (for thy name is in this house) and
the Lord our God, neither respect of persons, nor will crie vnto thee in our tribulation, and thou
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receiuing of reward. Moreouer in Ierusalem did wilt heare and helpe. 10 And now beholde, the
Iehoshaphat set of the Leuites, and of the Priests children of Ammon and Moab, and mount Seir,
by whome thou wouldest not let Israel goe, when
and of the chiefe of the families of Israel, for
the iudgement and cause of the Lord: and they they came out of the land of Egypt: but they
returned to Ierusale. 9 And he charged them, turned aside from them, and destroyed them not:
saying, Thus shall yee doe in the feare of the Lord 11 Behold, I say, they reward vs, in comming to
faithfully and with a perfite heart. 10 And in euery cast vs out of thine inheritance, which thou hast
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cause that shall come to you of your brethren caused vs to inherit. O our God, wilt thou not
iudge them? for there is no strength in vs to
that dwel in their cities, betweene blood and stand before this great multitude that commeth
blood, betweene law and precept, statutes and against vs, neither doe wee knowe what to doe:
iudgements, ye shall iudge them, and admonish but our eyes are toward thee. 13 And all Iudah
them that they trespasse not against the Lord, stoodebeforetheLordwiththeiryongones, their
that wrath come not vpon you and vpon your wiues, and their children. 14 And Iahaziel the
brethren. This shall ye do and trespasse not. sonne of Zechariah the sonne of Benaiah, the
11 And behold, Amariah the Priest shalbe the sonne of Ieiel, the sonne of Mattaniah, a Leuite
chiefe ouer you in all matters of the Lord, and of the sonnes of Asaph was there, vpon whome
Zebadiah ye sonne of Ishmael, a ruler of the came the Spirite of ye Lord, in the middes of
house of Iudah, shalbe for al the Kings affaires, the Congregation. 15 And he said, Hearken ye,
and the Leuites shalbe officers before you. Bee of all Iudah, and ye inhabitantes of Ierusalem, and
courage, and doe it, and the Lord shalbe with the thou, King Iehoshaphat: thus saith the Lord vnto
good. you, Feare you not, neither be afraide for this
great multitude: for the battel is not yours, but
20 Gods. 16 To morowe goe yee downe against them:

1 After this also came the children of Moab beholde, they come vp by the cleft of Ziz, and ye
and the children of Ammon, and with them of shall finde them at the ende of the brooke before
the Ammonites against Iehoshaphat to battell. the wildernesse of Ieruel. 17 Ye shall not neede
2 Then there came that tolde Iehoshaphat, say- to fight in this battell: stand still, moue not, and
ing, There commeth a great multitude against behold the saluation of the Lord towardes you:
thee from beyonde the Sea, out of Aram: and O Iudah, and Ierusalem, feare ye not, neither be
beholde, they bee in Hazzon Tamar, which is afraid: to morow goe out against them, and the
En-gedi. 3 And Iehoshaphat feared, and set him Lord wilbe with you. 18 Then Iehoshaphat bowed
selfe to seeke the Lord, and proclaimed a fast downe with his face to the earth, and all Iudah
throughout all Iudah. 4 And Iudah gathered and the inhabitants of Ierusalem fell downe be-
fore the Lord, worshipping the Lord.
And the
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them selues together to aske counsel of the Lord: Leuites of the children of the Kohathites and of
they came euen out of all the cities of Iudah to the childre of the Corhites stood vp to prayse
inquire of the Lord, 5 And Iehoshaphat stoode the Lord God of Israel with a loude voyce on hie.
in the Congregation of Iudah and Ierusalem in 20 And when they arose early in the morning,
the house of the Lord before the new court, they went forth to the wildernesse of Tekoa: and
6 And saide, O Lord God of our fathers, art not
thou God in heauen? and reignest not thou as they departed, Iehoshaphat stoode and sayde,