November 29, 2013 – 2 Chronicles 20:13 – 37

For the most part, Jehoshaphat was a really good king.  He seemed to follow God for the most part and did many good things for the people, but still could manage to bring down the towers or stay away from bad king influences.  The scene with the foreign army is an interesting one.  In most battles that God helps, you see the army of Israel defeating a foe that is much larger than they are.  Here, that isn’t the case.  Here, God tells all of Israel to go out to meet the army.  You can see all the men, plus the women and children, walking out to meet this army.  They didn’t know what was going to happen, possibly wondering whether they would just be mowed down.  They come over a rise and see that the army they feared was destroyed, or has destroyed itself.  But it seems only the men have died.  God has done such a job of destroying the army, but livestock and other loot are left untouched and take 3 days to gather.  But it took the faith of all of Judah to walk out of their walls and meet the army.