2 Chronicles 20:26 (DBY)

Passage

And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah, for there they blessed Jehovah; therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Berachah, to this day.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 20:24 And Judah came on to the mountain-watch in the wilderness, and they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none had escaped.

2 Chronicles 20:25 And Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder the spoil of them, and they found among them in abundance, both riches with the dead bodies, and precious things, and they stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away; and they were three days in plundering the spoil, it was so much.

2 Chronicles 20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah, for there they blessed Jehovah; therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Berachah, to this day.

2 Chronicles 20:27 And they returned, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Jehovah had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

2 Chronicles 20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with lutes and harps and trumpets, to the house of Jehovah.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "fourth", "assembled", "themselves", "valley", "berachah", "blessed", and "jehovah". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "fourth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 25's "And Jehoshaphat and his people came to..." into verse 27's "And they returned all the men of...", so "called" and "fourth" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "called" and "fourth" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.