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JEHOSHAPHAT’S EXTRAORDINARY
STRATEGIST IN THE FACE OF WAR
There’s another instance of the Extraordinary
Strategist’s superb counselling prowess in 2
Chronicles 20:1,3-4:
“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 Jehoshaphat to
battle... And Jehoshaphat feared, and set
himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed
a fast throughout all Judah. And Judah
gathered themselves together, to ask help
of the Lord: even out of all the cities of
Judah they came to seek the Lord”
The small nation of Judah was completely
surrounded and outnumbered by the armies of
three enemy nations—Moab, Ammon, and Mount
Seir. So King Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast
throughout the land, and the entire nation, as one,
sought the face of the Lord.