¹It 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.

¹In zgodi se potem, da pridejo sinovi Moabovi in sinovi Amonovi in ž njimi nekateri iz Meunimov bojevat se zoper Josafata.

²Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.

²Pridejo pa in sporoče Josafatu, rekoč: Prihaja velika množica zoper tebe z one strani morja, od Sirije; in glej, že so v Hazazon-tamarju (to je Engedi).

³And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

³In Josafat se zboji in obrne obraz, da bi iskal GOSPODA, in razglasi post po vsem Judovem.

⁴And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

⁴In Juda se zbere, da išče pomoči od GOSPODA; prav iz vseh mest Judovih so prišli iskat GOSPODA.

⁵And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

⁵In Josafat se postavi v zboru Judovem in Jeruzalemcev, v hiši GOSPODOVI pred novim dvoriščem,

⁶And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God 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?

⁶in reče: O GOSPOD, Bog očetov naših, nisi li Bog v nebesih? in nisi li ti vladar vsem kraljestvom narodov? in v roki tvoji je krepkost in moč, da se ti ne more nihče ustavljati.

⁷Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

⁷Nisi li ti, o Bog naš, pregnal prebivalcev te dežele pred ljudstvom svojim Izraelom ter si jo dal semenu Abrahama, prijatelja svojega, na vekomaj?

⁸And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

⁸In prebivali so v njej in zgradili ti v njej svetišče za ime tvoje in dejali:

⁹If, 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.

⁹Ako pride nad nas nesreča, meč, sodba, ali kuga, ali lakota, postavimo se pred to hišo in pred teboj (kajti v tej hiši je ime tvoje) in bomo vpili k tebi v stiski svoji, in ti boš slišal in pomagal.

¹⁰And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

¹⁰In sedaj, glej, sinovi Amonovi in Moabovi in s Seirske gore, med katere nisi dovolil iti Izraelu, ko so šli iz dežele Egiptovske, temuč izognili so se jim ter jih niso pokončali:

¹¹Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

¹¹glej, oni nam to povračajo s tem, da so prišli nas podit iz tvoje posesti, ki si jo nam dal v last.

¹²O our God, 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.

¹²O Bog naš, jih li ne boš sodil? Zakaj v nas ni moči proti temu velikemu krdelu, ki gre semkaj zoper nas; mi ne vemo, kaj storiti, temuč oči naše gledajo po tebi.

¹³And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

¹³In ves Juda je stal pred GOSPODOM z otročiči svojimi, s svojimi ženami in sinovi.

¹⁴Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

¹⁴Tedaj pride, sredi zbora, na Jahaziela, sina Zeharija, sinu Benaja, sinu Jegiela, sinu Matanija, levita, iz sinov Asafovih, duh GOSPODOV,

¹⁵And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

¹⁵in reče: Poslušajte mene, ves Juda in prebivalci v Jeruzalemu in ti, kralj Josafat! Tako vam pravi GOSPOD: Ne bojte se, ne plašite se spričo te velike množice, zakaj boj ni vaš, ampak Božji.

¹⁶To morrow 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 Jeruel.

¹⁶Jutri pojdite doli proti njim; glejte, gredo sem gori po klancu Zizu, in zalotite jih ob koncu doline, pred Jeruelsko puščavo.

¹⁷Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

¹⁷Vam se ni treba bojevati v tej bitki: razpostavite se in tiho stojte ter glejte rešenje GOSPODOVO pri sebi, Juda in Jeruzalem! Ne bojte se, ne plašite se; jutri pojdite ven proti njim, GOSPOD je z vami!

¹⁸And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

¹⁸Nato se Josafat pripogne z obrazom do tal, in ves Juda in prebivalci jeruzalemski padejo pred GOSPODOM in molijo GOSPODA.

¹⁹And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

¹⁹Leviti pa izmed sinov Kahatovih in sinov Korahovih vstanejo hvalit GOSPODA, Boga Izraelovega, s silno velikim glasom.

²⁰And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

²⁰In zjutraj zgodaj vstanejo in gredo ven proti Tekojski puščavi. In ko odhajajo, stoji Josafat in govori: Poslušajte me, Juda in vsi prebivalci jeruzalemski! Verujte v GOSPODA, svojega Boga, in varni bodete, verujte prorokom njegovim, in srečo boste imeli!

²¹And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

²¹In ko se je posvetoval z ljudstvom, postavi pevce, da naj pojo GOSPODU in ga hvalijo v diki svetosti, gredoč pred oboroženci in govoreč: Hvalite GOSPODA, ker vekomaj traja milost njegova!

²²And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

²²In ko so začeli peti in hvaliti, je GOSPOD storil, da je šla zaseda zoper sinove Amonove in Moabove in tiste s Seirske gore, ki so bili prišli proti Judi; in bili so poraženi.

²³For 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.

²³Kajti sinovi Amonovi in Moabovi so se vzdignili zoper prebivalce na Seirski gori, da bi jih docela pokončali in zatrli. In ko so storili konec prebivalcem Seira, pomagali so drug drugemu uničiti sebe.

²⁴And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

²⁴Ko pa pridejo Judovi k stražnemu stolpu ob puščavi, so se ozrli po množici, in glej, tu so ležala mrtva trupla po zemlji, nihče ni ubežal.

²⁵And when Jehoshaphat 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.

²⁵In ko pride Josafat in ljudstvo njegovo pobirat plen, so ga našli veliko množino pri njih, blaga in obleke in dragocenega orodja, in so toliko zase naplenili, da niso mogli nesti. In tri dni so pobirali plen, ker ga je toliko bilo.

²⁶And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

²⁶In četrti dan so se zbrali v Dolini zahvale; ondi so namreč hvalili GOSPODA, zato so imenovali ta kraj Dolino zahvale do današnjega dne.

²⁷Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

²⁷Potem so se obrnili, vsi možje Judovi in jeruzalemski in njim na čelu Josafat, da se vrnejo v Jeruzalem z veseljem; zakaj GOSPOD jih je razveselil nad njih sovražniki.

²⁸And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

²⁸In dospejo v Jeruzalem in stopijo v hišo GOSPODOVO s psalmovimi strunami in harfami in trobentami.

²⁹And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

²⁹In strah Božji je obšel vsa kraljestva po deželah, ko so slišali, da se je GOSPOD bojeval zoper sovražnike Izraelove.

³⁰So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.

³⁰In kraljevina Josafatova je uživala mir, kajti Bog njegov mu je dal pokoj z vseh strani.

³¹And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

³¹Josafat je torej kraljeval nad Judo; petintrideset let je bil star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je petindvajset let v Jeruzalemu. In materi njegovi je bilo ime Azuba, hči Silhijeva.

³²And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

³²In hodil je po poti Asa, očeta svojega, ni se ganil od nje in je delal, kar je bilo prav v očeh GOSPODOVIH.

³³Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

³³Toda višave niso bile odpravljene, ljudstvo tudi še ni obrnilo srca svojega k Bogu očetov svojih.

³⁴Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

³⁴Druge zgodbe Josafatove pa, prve in poslednje, glej, zapisane so v zgodovini Jehuja, sina Hananovega, ki je sprejeta v knjigo kraljev Izraelovih.

³⁵And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

³⁵A potem se je združil Josafat, kralj Judov, z Ahazijem, kraljem Izraelovim; ta je ravnal brezbožno.

³⁶And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.

³⁶Združil se je pa ž njim, da napravita ladje, ki bi vozile v Tarsis; in zgradila sta ladje v Ezion-geberju.Tedaj je prorokoval Eliezer, sin Dodavahov iz Marese, zoper Josafata, govoreč: Ker si se združil z Ahazijem, je razbil GOSPOD dela tvoja. In razbile so se ladje, da se niso mogli peljati v Tarsis.

³⁷Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

³⁷Tedaj je prorokoval Eliezer, sin Dodavahov iz Marese, zoper Josafata, govoreč: Ker si se združil z Ahazijem, je razbil GOSPOD dela tvoja. In razbile so se ladje, da se niso mogli peljati v Tarsis.