1. And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2. Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea from Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar (the same is En-gedi).
3. And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto the Lord; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4. And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek 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 he said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and art not thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in thine hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee.
7. Didst not thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?