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Divrei HaYamim Bet19
2 Chronicles · Chapter 19
And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Yerushalayim.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)? therefore is wrath upon thee from before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek Elohim.
And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Yerushalayim: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of their fathers.
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), who is with you in the judgment.
Wherefore now let the fear of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) be upon you; take heed and do
it: for
there is no iniquity with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
Moreover in Yerushalayim did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and
of
the kohanim, and of the chief of the fathers of Yisra'el, for the judgment of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and for controversies, when they returned to Yerushalayim.
And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between torah and mitsvah, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
And, behold, Amariah the chief kohen is over you in all matters of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king’s matters: also the Levites
shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall be with the good.
Ketuvim
Divrei HaYamim Bet20
2 Chronicles · Chapter 20
It came to pass after this also,
that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them
other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they
be Hazazon-tamar, which
is En-gedi.
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask
help of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Yerushalayim, in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), before the new court,
And said, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of our fathers,
art not thou Elohim in shamayim? and rulest
not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand
is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
Art not thou our Elohim,
who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Yisra'el, and gavest it to the seed of Avraham thy friend for ever?
And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
If,
when evil cometh upon us,
as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name
is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Yisra'el invade, when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
Behold,
I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
O our Elohim, 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
are upon thee.
And all Judah stood before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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 Ruach of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in the midst of the congregation;
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle
is not yours, but Elohim’s.
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.
Ye shall not
need to fight in this
battle: set yourselves, stand ye
still, and see the salvation of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) with you, O Judah and Yerushalayim: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
will be with you.
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with
his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim fell before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), worshipping 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el with a loud voice on high.
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 Yerushalayim; Believe in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim, so shall ye be established; believe his nevi'im, so shall ye prosper.
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); for his mercy
endureth for ever.
And when they began to sing and to praise, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
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.
And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they
were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
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.
And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
Then they returned, every man of Judah and Yerushalayim, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Yerushalayim with joy; for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
And they came to Yerushalayim with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the fear of Elohim was on all the kingdoms of
those countries, when they had heard that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) fought against the enemies of Yisra'el.
So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his Elohim gave him rest round about.
And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah:
he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing
that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the Elohim of their fathers.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Yisra'el.
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Yisra'el, who did very wickedly:
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-gaber.
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Ketuvim
Divrei HaYamim Bet21
2 Chronicles · Chapter 21
Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawid. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these
were
the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Yisra'el.
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
was the firstborn.
Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and
divers also of the princes of Yisra'el.
Jehoram
was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought
that which was evil in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Howbeit 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) would not destroy the house of Dawid, because of the b'rit that he had made with Dawid, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
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.
So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time
also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of his fathers.
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to commit fornication, and compelled Judah
thereto.
And there came a writing to him from Eliyahu the navi, saying, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Dawid thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim 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 were better than thyself:
Behold, with a great plague will 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
And thou
shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
Moreover 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that
were near the Ethiopians:
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.
And after all this 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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.
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of Dawid, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.