- After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: "Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever."
- As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
- The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
- When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.
- So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value--more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it.
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- И совещался он с народом, и поставил певцов Господу, чтобы они в благолепии святыни, выступая впереди вооруженных, славословили и говорили: славьте Господа, ибо вовек милость Его!
- И в то время, [как] они стали восклицать и славословить, Господь возбудил несогласие между Аммонитянами, Моавитянами и [обитателями] горы Сеира, пришедшими на Иудею, и были они поражены:
- ибо восстали Аммонитяне и Моавитяне на обитателей горы Сеира, побивая и истребляя [их], а когда покончили с жителями Сеира, тогда стали истреблять друг друга.
- И когда Иудеи пришли на возвышенность к пустыне и взглянули на то многолюдство, и вот--трупы, лежащие на земле, и нет уцелевшего.
- И пришел Иосафат и народ его забирать добычу, и нашли у них во множестве и имущество, и одежды, и драгоценные вещи, и набрали себе столько, что не [могли] нести. И три дня они забирали добычу; так велика [была] она!
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