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When they began singing and praising, the Lord ^(z)set ambushes against the sons of ^(aa)Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were ^[e]routed.

For the sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir destroying them completely; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, ^(ab)they helped to destroy one another.

When Judah came to the lookout of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses lying on the ground, and no one had escaped.

When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found much among them, including goods, ^[f]garments and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry. And they were three days taking the spoil because there was so much.

Then on the fourth day they assembled in the valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the Lord . Therefore they have named that place "The Valley of ^[g]Beracah" until today.

Every man of Judah and Jerusalem returned with Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, ^(ac)for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

They came to Jerusalem with harps, lyres and trumpets to the house of the Lord .

And ^(ad)the dread of God was on all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.

So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace, ^(ae)for his God gave him rest on all sides.

^(af)Now Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not depart from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord .

^(ag)The high places, however, were not removed; ^(ah)the people had not yet directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first ^[h]to last, behold, they are written in the annals of ^(ai)Jehu the son of Hanani, which is ^[i]recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

^(aj)After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. He acted wickedly ^[j]in so doing.

So he allied himself with him to make ships to go ^(ak)to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.