Jehoshaphat Before the Assembly

⁵ Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Yahweh before the new court, ⁶ and he said, “O Yahweh, the God of our fathers, ^(A)are You not God in the heavens? And ^(B)are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can take their stand against You. ⁷ Did You not, O our God, dispossess the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and ^(C)give it to the seed of ^(D)Abraham Your friend forever? ⁸ And they have lived in it, and have built You a sanctuary there for Your name, saying, ⁹ ‘^(E)Should evil come upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before You (for ^(F)Your name is in this house) and cry to You in our distress, and You will hear and save us.’ ¹⁰ So now, behold, ^(G)the sons of Ammon and Moab and ^[a]Mount Seir, ^(H)whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt (they turned aside from them and did not destroy them), ¹¹ and behold, they are rewarding us by ^(I)coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have caused us to possess. ¹² O our God, ^(J)will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; and we do not know what we should do, but ^(K)our eyes are on You.”