2Ch 14:9-13, 20:1, 20-24, Psa 2:1-4, 83:2-8, Isa 8:9-10, 37:21-36 | ESV | STEP | Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots , and came as far as Mareshah .

9 Zerah ^athe Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as ^bMareshah. 10 And Asa went out to meet him, and ^cthey drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at ^dMareshah. 11 And Asa ^ecried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, ^ffor we rely on you, ^gand in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.” 12 ^hSo the Lord defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled. 13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as ⁱGerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ^{▼▼Hebrew They} carried away very much spoil.

2 Chronicles 20:1

Jehoshaphat’s Prayer

1 After this ^kthe Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, ^{▼▼Compare 26:7; Hebrew Ammonites} came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

2 Chronicles 20:20-24

20 And they rose early in the morning and went out into ^mthe wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! ⁿBelieve in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.” 21 And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord and praise him ^oin holy attire, as they went before the army, and say,

^p“Give thanks to the Lord,
for his steadfast love endures forever.”
22 And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ^qan ambush against the men of ^rAmmon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed. 23 For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, ^sthey all helped to destroy one another.

The Lord Delivers Judah

24 When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there ^{▼▼Hebrew they} were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.

Psalms 2:1-4

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed

1 ^uWhy do ^vthe nations rage ^{▼▼Or nations noisily assemble}
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his ^xAnointed, saying,
3 “Let us ^yburst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who ^zsits in the heavens ^aalaughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.

Psalms 83:2-8

2 For behold, your enemies ^abmake an uproar;
those who hate you have ^acraised their heads.
3 They lay ^adcrafty plans against your people;
they consult together against your ^aetreasured ones.
4 They say, “Come, ^aflet us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
5 For they conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
6 the tents of ^agEdom and ^ahthe Ishmaelites,
^aiMoab and ^ajthe Hagrites,
7 ^akGebal and ^alAmmon and ^amAmalek,
^anPhilistia with the inhabitants of ^aoTyre;
8 ^apAsshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of ^aqthe children of Lot. Selah

Isaiah 8:9-10

9 Be broken, ^{▼▼Or Be evil} you peoples, and ^asbe shattered; ^{▼▼Or dismayed}
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, ^aubut it will not stand,
for God ^avis with us. ^{▼▼The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel}

Isaiah 37:21-36

Sennacherib’s Fall

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
^axthe virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.
23 “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against ^aythe Holy One of Israel!
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ^azWith my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
^bato cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
25 I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all ^bbthe streams ^bcof Egypt.
26 ^bd“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts like a field} before it is grown.
28 “‘I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
29 ^bfBecause you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and ^bgI will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’
30 “And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah ^bhshall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 ^biFor out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. ^bjThe zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or ^bkcast up a siege mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 35 ^blFor I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for ^bmthe sake of my servant David.”

36 ^bnAnd the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.