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not; behold, how they reward us, to come and cast us out of 
Thy possession, which Thou hast given us toinherit. O our 
God, wilt not Thou judge them? for we have no might against 
this great company that cometh against us; neither know we 
what to do; but our eyes are upon Thee.”’ 
When the prayer was ended the Spirit of the Lord came 
upon a Levite in the midst of the congregation, who, under 
this divine impulse, said, ‘“ Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye in- 
habitants of Jerusalem, and thou, King Jehoshaphat ; thus saith 
the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of 
this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. 
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle; set yourselves, 
stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord with you.” 
On the morrow, when they went forth at the divine bidding 
to behold the invaders, they found that the Lord had turned 
their treachery to Judah towards one another, so that Moab 
and Edom slew the people of Seir and then turned their 
swords against each other until all were destroyed; and the 
number was so great that it took them three days to collect 
the spoil. 
This quotation has been made because this piece of national 
history establishes every position that has been affirmed in the 
preceding argument. ‘There evidently was free and conscious 
intercourse with God. He was addressed by Jehoshaphat as 
God in heaven, and as ruling in all the kingdoms of the 
heathen. As their King they appealed to Him for help, and 
by that power which He, as the Maker and Upholder of all 
men, was able to use, turned the swords of these foes of Israei 
against each other, and thus delivered His people who obeyed 
and trusted in Him, while He, in the same act, punished, by 
means of their own wickedness, those who had so plainly 
violated obligations palpable to all. 
The two cases selected are only peculiar in this respect, 
that they were of that public and general importance which 
precluded the possibility of mistake or deception ; and they 
have been taken, not as parts of a divine revelation, but as 
portions of authentic history. And the history of which they 
are parts is full of similar divine interpositions in the main- 
tenance of His law, both to reward and to punish. 
And it must be remembered that, while this rule was 
immediately over Israel for their good, its ultimate intention 
was as wide as the race. At the time Abram was chosen as 
the father of the Church, some special interposition was 
necessary to prevent the entire and universal departure of 
men from the Creator and Sustainer of all, as the one true 
and living God. Other reformers, among the Iranians and 
