The LORD made all the surrounding kingdoms afraid to go to war against King Jehoshaphat.

Every nation that heard how the LORD had defeated Israel's enemies was terrified,

When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.

From today on I will make people everywhere afraid of you. Everyone will tremble with fear at the mention of your name.'

and said to them, "I know that the LORD has given you this land. Everyone in the country is terrified of you.

We were afraid as soon as we heard about it; we have all lost our courage because of you. The LORD your God is God in heaven above and here on earth.

All the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the Mediterranean Sea heard that the LORD had dried up the Jordan until the people of Israel had crossed it. They became afraid and lost their courage because of the Israelites.

All the Philistines in the countryside were terrified; the raiders and the soldiers in the camp trembled with fear; the earth shook, and there was great panic.

The Lord had made the Syrians hear what sounded like the advance of a large army with horses and chariots, and the Syrians thought that the king of Israel had hired Hittite and Egyptian kings and their armies to attack them.

Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe.

But when they saw it, they were amazed; they were afraid and ran away.

There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,

Their emperor will run away in terror, and the officers will be so frightened that they will abandon their battle flags." The LORD has spoken---the LORD who is worshiped in Jerusalem and whose fire burns there for sacrifices.

Jehoshaphat and his troops moved in to take the loot, and they found many cattle, supplies, clothing, and other valuable objects. They spent three days gathering the loot, but there was so much that they could not take everything.

Suddenly the power of the LORD made him strong, and he went down to Ashkelon, where he killed thirty men, stripped them, and gave their fine clothes to the men who had solved the riddle. After that, he went back home, furious about what had happened,

So that evening the Syrians had fled for their lives, abandoning their tents, horses, and donkeys, and leaving the camp just as it was.

When the four men reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, ate and drank what was there, grabbed the silver, gold, and clothing they found, and went off and hid them; then they returned, entered another tent, and did the same thing.

The people of Samaria rushed out and looted the Syrian camp. And as the LORD had said, ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley were sold for one piece of silver.

"Kings and their armies are running away!" The women at home divided what was captured:

(SEE 33:22)

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!