¹It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] , and the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] , and with them [other] beside the ‘Amon [Inbred] , came against Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] to battle.

²Then there came some that told Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] , saying, There comes a great multitude against youi from beyond the sea on this side Aram [exalted] (Syria) [exalted] ; and, behold, they [be] in Hatzatzon-Tamar [dividing the date-palm] , which [is] ‘Ein-Gedi [Fount of the Kid] .

³And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] feared, and set himself to seek the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and proclaimed a fast throughout all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] .

⁴And Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) : even out of all the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] they came to seek the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

⁵And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] stood in the congregation of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , in the house of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , before the new court,

⁶And said, O Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of our fathers, [are] not youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in heaven? and rule [not] youi over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in youri hand [is there not] power and might, so that none is able that is to withstand youi ?

⁷[Are] not youi our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , [who] did drive out the inhabitants of this land before youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , and gave it to the seed of Avraham [Exalted Father] youri friend forever?

⁸And they dwelt in it, and have built youi a sanctuary in it for youri name, saying,

⁹If, [when] evil comes upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in youri presence, (for youri name [is] in this house,) and cry unto youi in our affliction, then youi will hear and help.

¹⁰And now, behold, the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] and Mo’av [Seed of my Father] and mount Se’ir [Shaggy] , whom youi would not let Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] invade, when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] , but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

¹¹Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of youri possession, which youi have given us to inherit.

¹²O our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , will youi not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon youi .

¹³And all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] stood before the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

¹⁴Then upon Yachazi’el [beheld of God] the son of Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers] , the son of B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] , the son of Ye’i’el [God sweeps away] , the son of Matanyah [gift of Yehovah] , a Levi (Levite) [Joined to] of the sons of Asaf [gatherer] , came the Spirit of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the midst of the congregation;

¹⁵And he said, Listen you2f , all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , and you2f inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , and youi king Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] , Thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] ’s.

¹⁶Tomorrow go you2f down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Tzitz [flower] ; and you2f shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Yeru’el [taught by God] .

¹⁷You2f shall not [need] to fight in this [battle] : set yourselves, stand you2f [still] , and see the salvation of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) with you, O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] : fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [will be] with you.

¹⁸And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] fell before the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , worshipping the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

¹⁹And the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] , of the children of the K’hati, and of the children of the Korchi [of baldness] , stood up to praise the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with a loud voice on high.

²⁰And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of T’koa [a stockade] : and as they went forth, Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] stood and said, Hear me, O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , and you2f inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] ; Believe in the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , so shall you2f be established; believe his prophets, so shall you2f prosper.

²¹And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ; for his mercy [endures] forever.

²²And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) set ambushes against the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] , Mo’av [Seed of my Father] , and mount Se’ir [Shaggy] , which were come against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] ; and they were smitten.

²³For the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] and Mo’av [Seed of my Father] stood up against the inhabitants of mount Se’ir [Shaggy] , utterly to slay and destroy [them] : and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se’ir [Shaggy] , every one helped to destroy another.

²⁴And when Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] 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.

²⁵And when Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] and his people came to take away the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) 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 (plunder; prey; booty) , it was so much.

²⁶And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of B’rakhah [blessing] ; for there they Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) : therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of B’rakhah [blessing] , unto this day.

²⁷Then they returned, every man of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] in the forefront of them, to go again to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] with joy; for the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

²⁸And they came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

²⁹And the fear of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) fought against the enemies of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

³⁰So the realm of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] was quiet: for his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] gave him rest round about.

³¹And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] reigned over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] : [he was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] . And his mother’s name [was] ‘Azuvah [forsaken] the daughter of Shilchi [armed] .

³²And he walked in the way of Asa [healer; injurious?] his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

³³However the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

³⁴Now the rest of the acts of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] , first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Yehu [Yehovah is He] the son of Hanani [gracious] , who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

³⁵And after this did Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] join himself with Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , who did very wickedly:

³⁶And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish [yellow jasper] : and they made the ships in ‘Etzyon-Gever [backbone of a man] .

³⁷Then Eli’ezer [God is help] the son of Dodavahu [beloved of Yehovah] of Mareshah [Crest of a Hill] prophesied against Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] , saying, Because youi have joined yourself with Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] , the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has broken youri works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish [yellow jasper] .