However, it wasn’t long before the Lord brought him back to Himself through the prophet Jehu, after being rescued from certain death in battle (18:31-19:3). The Philistines even brought tribute so that Jehoshaphat became greater and greater.īut when Jehoshaphat and all of Judah made peace with Israel, they fell into sin and stopped trusting the Lord (Ch.18). And all the people in the land that lived around Judah were afraid to make war against Jehoshaphat because of the dread of the Lord (v.10). In fact, he took great pride in the ways of the Lord, as he removed the idols from the land of Judah (20:6) and sent teachers to teach the people the law of the Lord (vv. Jehoshaphat was a good king just as his father Asa was. 12 O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.” NKJV “O Lord God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You? 7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever? 8 And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying, 9 ‘If disaster comes upon us - sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine - we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’ 10 And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir - whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them - 11 here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.
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