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The Acoustic Warfare at Tekoa and the Valley of Blessing
It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Yahushaphat to battle.
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Then there came some that told Yahushaphat, saying, "There cometh a great multitude against you from beyond the sea on this side Aram; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-Tamar, which is En-Gedi."
20:3
The Decree of the Fast
And Yahushaphat feared, and set himself to seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Yahudah.
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And Yahudah gathered themselves together, to ask help of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: even out of all the cities of Yahudah they came to seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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The Invocation of the Portal Protocol
And Yahushaphat stood in the congregation of Yahudah and Yarushalayim, in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, before the new court,
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And said, "O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of our fathers, art not Thou Alahiym in heaven? and rulest not Thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in Thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee?"
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"Art not Thou our Alahiym, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Yashar'al, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend forever?"
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"And they dwelt therein, and have built Thee a sanctuary therein for Thy Name, saying,"
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"If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in Thy presence, (for Thy Name is in this house,) and cry unto Thee in our affliction, then Thou wilt hear and help."
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The Indictment of the Invaders
"And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom Thou wouldest not let Yashar'al invade, when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;"
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"Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of Thy possession, which Thou hast given us to inherit."
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The Posture of Complete Reliance
"O our Alahiym, wilt Thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon Thee."
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And all Yahudah stood before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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The Prophetic Intercept by Yahaziel
Then upon Yahaziel the son of Zekaryahu, the son of Benayahu, the son of Yechiel, the son of Mattanyahu, a Lawiyte of the sons of Asaph, came the Ruach of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in the midst of the congregation;
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And he said, "Hearken ye, all Yahudah, and ye inhabitants of Yarushalayim, and thou king Yahushaphat, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but Alahiym's."
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"Tomorrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Yeruel."
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The Command to Stand Still
"Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 with you, O Yahudah and Yarushalayim: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will be with you."
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The Worship Response
And Yahushaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Yahudah and the inhabitants of Yarushalayim fell before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, worshipping 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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And the Lawiytes, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of Yashar'al with a loud voice on high.
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The Deployment to Tekoa
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Yahushaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Yahudah, and ye inhabitants of Yarushalayim; Believe in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper."
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The Vanguard of the Singers
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, "Praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; for His mercy endureth forever."
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The Ambush of Acoustic Override
And when they began to sing and to praise, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Yahudah; and they were smitten.
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The Self-Destruction of the Enemy Matrices
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
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The Slaughter at the Watchtower
And when Yahudah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
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The Three Days of Elemental Spoil
And when Yahushaphat and his people came to take away the spoil 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, it was so much.
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The Valley of Berakah
And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berakah; for there they blessed 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berakah, unto this day.
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The Triumphant Return
Then they returned, every man of Yahudah and Yarushalayim, and Yahushaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Yarushalayim with joy; for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
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And they came to Yarushalayim with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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The Broadcast of the Divine Terror
And the fear of Alahiym was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 fought against the enemies of Yashar'al.
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So the realm of Yahushaphat was quiet: for his Alahiym gave him rest round about.
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The Reign of Yahushaphat
And Yahushaphat reigned over Yahudah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Yarushalayim. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
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And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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The Lingering Incomplete Calibration
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the Alahiym of their fathers.
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The Record of Yehu
Now the rest of the acts of Yahushaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Yehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Yashar'al.
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The Fatal Maritime Alliance
And after this did Yahushaphat king of Yahudah join himself with Ahazyahu king of Yashar'al, who did very wickedly:
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And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Etziyun-Geber.
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The Shattering of the Fleet
Then Eliezer the son of Dodawahu of Mareshah prophesied against Yahushaphat, saying, "Because you have joined yourself with Ahazyahu, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath broken your works." And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.