1 After this ⁱthe Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites,¹ came against Jehoshaphat for battle. 2 Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A great multitude is coming against you from Edom,² from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in ^jHazazon-tamar” (that is, ^kEngedi). 3 Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face ^lto seek the Lord, and ^mproclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, 6 and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not ⁿGod in heaven? You ^orule over all the kingdoms of the nations. ^pIn your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. 7 Did you not, our God, ^qdrive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of ^rAbraham your friend? 8 And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, 9 ^s‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,³ or pestilence, or famine, ^twe will stand before this house and before you—^ufor your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ 10 And now behold, the men of ^vAmmon and Moab and ^wMount Seir, whom ^xyou would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, ^yand whom they avoided and did not destroy— 11 behold, they reward us ^zby coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12 O our God, will you not ^aexecute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but ^bour eyes are on you.”