2 CHRONICLES 20:1 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“It 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.”
The Moabite-Ammonite invasion — 'After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle' (ויהי אחרי כן באו בני מואב ובני עמון על יהושפט עם מהם מן המעונים). The phrase 'after this' (אחרי כן) signals causality in the Chronicler's providence — the judgment oracle in 19:2 immediately precedes this crisis. The specificity of the coalition (Moabites, Ammonites, Meunites) emphasizes the magnitude of the threat; the term Meunites (מעונים) appears rarely and may represent nomadic allies. The invasion tests Jehoshaphat's newly reformed covenant order. The Chronicler presents crises as pedagogical moments — the king and people must demonstrate the theology of 19:1-11 in extremity.
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