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2 Chronicles 20:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped. "
2 Chronicles 20:24
Verse in Context
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22 When they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.
24 When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies with precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.
26 On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.
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2 Chronicles 20:1
"After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle."
2 Chronicles 20:2
"Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi)."
2 Chronicles 20:3
"Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek the LORD. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah."
2 Chronicles 20:4
"Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from the LORD. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD."
2 Chronicles 20:5
"Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the LORD’s house, before the new court;"
2 Chronicles 20:6
"and he said, “LORD, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you."
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