2 Chronicles 20:3
General fasts had been previously observed by the Israelites (e. g. Judges 20:26; I Samuel 7:6); but we do not hear of any fast having been "proclaimed" by authority before this.
Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir Defeated
1 It happened after this that the people of aMoab with the people of bAmmon, and others with them besides the cAmmonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat.
2 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from1 Syria; and they are ain Hazazon Tamar” (which is bEn Gedi).
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to aseek the Lord, and bproclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4 So Judah gathered together to ask ahelp from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
5 Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,
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