About 900 years before Jesus was born, Judah faced a military threat from three nations that formed an alliance. King Jehoshaphat, the Judeans’ ruler, ordered his subjects to fast while he went to Jerusalem to pray in the Temple.
“We can do nothing to stop this huge army from attacking us,” Jehoshaphat prayed. “We don’t know what to do, so we are asking for Your help” (2 Chronicles 20:12).