3. Then Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4. And Judah gathered themselves together, to consult the Lord; and out of all the cities of Judah they came to consult the Lord.
5. And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,
6. and said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in the heavens and dost thou not rule in all the kingdoms of the Gentiles? Is there not power and might in thy hand so that no one is able to withstand thee?
7. Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel and didst give it to the seed of Abraham, thy friend, for ever?
8. And they have dwelt in it and have built thee a sanctuary in it for thy name, saying,