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("blessing".) Where Jehoshaphat and his people on the fourth day assembled to "bless" Jehovah for overthrowing the invading Ammonites, Moabites, Hagarenes, Edomites, and Amalekites who sought to "cut off Israel from being a nation" (Psalm 83; 2 Chronicles 20:26). Now Bereikut, in a valley between Tekua and the road from Bethlehem to Hebron. It is a broad, rich vale, watered with copious springs, affording space for a large multitude.