1   After these thinges were the children of Moab gathered together, and the children of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites, to fight agaynst Iosaphat.

2   And there came messengers, and told Iosaphat, saying: There cometh agaynst thee a great multitude from those places, which are beyond the sea, and out of Syria, and behold they stay in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.

3   And Iosaphat being frighted with feare, he tooke him wholy to besech our Lord, and he ^note proclamed a fast to al Iuda.

4   And Iudas was gathered together to pray to our Lord: yea and al ^note came out of their cities to besech him.

5   And when Iosaphat stood in the middes of the assemblie of Iuda, and Ierusalem in the house of our Lord before the new court,

6   he sayd: Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heauen, and rulest ouer al the kingdomes of Nations, in thy hand is strength and might, neither

Iosaphat. can anie man resist thee.

7   Didst not thou our God kil al the inhabitantes of this land before thy people Israel, and gauest it to the seed of Abraham thy frend for euer?

8   And they dwelt in it, & built in it a Sanctuarie to thy name, saying:

9   If euils fal vpon vs, the sword of iudgement, pestilence, & famine, we wil stand before this house in thy sight, wherein thy name is inuocated: & we wil crie to thee in our tribulations, and thou shalt heare, and saue vs.

10   Now therfore behold the children of Ammon, and mount Seir, by whom thou didst not grant Israel to passe, when they came out of Ægypt, but they declined from them, & slew them not:

11   doe the contrarie, and endeuoure to cast vs out of the possession, which thou hast deliuired to vs.

12   Our God, wilt not thou therfore iudge them? In vs in deed there is not so great strength, that we can resist this multitude, which cometh violently vpon vs. But whereas we are ignorant what we ought to doe, this onlie we haue least, that we direct our eies to thee.

13   And al Iuda stood before our Lord with their litle ones, and wiues, and their children.

14   And there was Iahaziel the sonne of Zacharias, the sonne of Banaias, the sonne of Iehiel, the sonne of Mathanias, a Leuite of the children of Asaph, vpon whom the spirit of our Lord came in the middes of the multitude,

15   and he sayd: Attend ye al Iuda, and you that dwel in Ierusalem, and thou king Iosaphat: thus sayth our Lord to you: Feare not, neither dread ye this multitude: for it is not your battel, but Gods.

16   To morrow you shal goe downe agaynst them: for they wil come vp by the steepe named Sis, and you shal find them in the vtmost part of the torrent, which is agaynst the wildernesse of Ieruel.

17   It shal not be you that shal fight, but onlie stand confidently, and you shal see the helpe of our Lord ouer you, ô Iuda, and Ierusalem: feare not, neither dreade ye: to morrow you shal goe out agaynst them, and our Lord wil be with you.

18   Iosaphat therfore, and Iuda, and al the inhabitantes of Ierusalem fel flat on the earth before our Lord, and adored him.

19   Moreouer the Leuites of the children of Caath, and of the children of Core praysed our Lord the God of Israel with a lowd voice, on high.

20   And when they had risen earely in the morning, they went forth by the desert of Thecua: and they being gone forth, Iosaphat standing in the middes of them, sayd: Heare me ye men of Iuda, and al the inhabiters of Ierusalem: ^note beleue in the Lord

Iosaphat. your God, and you shal be secure: beleue his prophetes, and al thinges shal fal our prosperous.

21   He gaue counsel also to the people, and appoynted the singing men of our Lord, that they should prayse him in their companies, and should goe before the host, and with agreable voice should say: Confesse to our Lord, because his mercie is foreuer.

22   And when they began to sing prayses, our Lord turned their embushementes vpon themselues, to witte, of the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and of mount Seir, who were gone forth to fight agaynst Iuda, and were striken.

23   For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose together agaynst the inhabitantes of mount Seir, to kil and destroy them: and when they had in worke atcheued this, being turned also agaynst themselues, they fel wounded one of an other.

24   Moreouer Iuda when they were come to the watch place, that looketh to the desert, saw a far of al the countrie abrode ful of dead bodies, and that none remayned aliue that could escape death.

25   Iosaphat therfore came, and al the people with him to take away the spoiles of the dead, and they found among the dead bodies, diuerse stusse, garments also, and most pretious vessels: and they spoiled it, soe that they could not carie al thinges, not in three dayes take a Way the spoiles for the greatnesse of the praye.

26   And in the fourth day they were assembled in the Vale of blessing: for because there they had blessed our Lord, they called that place the Vale of blessing vntil this present day.

27   And euerie man of Iuda returned, and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem, and Iosaphat before them into Ierusalem with great ioy, because our Lord had geuen them ioy of their enemies.

28   And they entered into Ierusalem with psalteries, and harpes, and trumpettes into the house of our Lord.

29   And the dread of our Lord fel vpon al the kingdomes of the landes when they heard that our Lord had fought agaynst the enemies of Israel.

30   And the kidgdom of Iosaphat was quiet and God gaue him peace round about.

31   Iosaphat therfore reigned ouer Iuda, and he was fiue and thirtie yeares old when he begane to reigne: and he reigned fiue and twentie yeares in Ierusalem: and the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Selahi.

32   And he walked in the way of his father Asa, neither declined he from it, doing the thinges that were pleasing before our Lord.

33   But ^note yet the excelses he tooke not away, and as yet the people had not directed their hart to

Iosaphat. Ioram. our Lord the God of their fathers.

34   But the rest of the actes of Iosaphat, the first and the last are writen in the wordes of Iehu the sonne of Hanani, which he disposed into the Bookes of the kinges of Israel.

35   After these thinges Iosaphat the king of Iuda entered frendshipe with Ochozias the king of Israel, whose workes were most impious.

36   And he was partaker to make shippes, which should goe into Tharsis: and they made a nauie in Asiongaber.

37   And Eliezer the sonne of Dodau of Maresa prophecied to Iosaphat, saying: Because thou hast had a league with Ochozias, our Lord hath strooken thy workes, and the shippes are broken, neither could they goe into Tharsis.

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