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As soon as it was day, and the king was come into that wilderness
which is under the city of Tekoa, he said to the multitude, "that
they ought to give credit to what the prophet had said, and not to set
themselves in array for fighting; but to set the priests with their trumpets,
and the Levites with the singers of hymns, to give thanks to God, as having
already delivered our country from our enemies." This opinion of the
king pleased [the people], and they did what he advised them to do. So
God caused a terror and a commotion to arise among the Ammonites, who thought
one another to be enemies, and slew one another, insomuch that not one
man out of so great an army escaped; and when Jehoshaphat looked upon that
valley wherein their enemies had been encamped, and saw it full of dead
men, he rejoiced at so surprising an event, as was this assistance of God,
while he himself by his own power, and without their labor, had given them
the victory. He also gave his army leave to take the prey of the enemy's
camp, and to spoil their dead bodies; and indeed so they did for three
days together, till they were weary, so great was the number of the slain;
and on the fourth day, all the people were gathered together unto a certain
hollow place or valley, and blessed God for his power and assistance, from
which the place had this name given it, the Valley of [Berachah, or] Blessing.
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