2 Chronicles 20:11

See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

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In The King James Version

Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

In Context

10And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

12O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:7And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

Deuteronomy 4:38Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

Judges 11:23So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it?

Psalms 35:12They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

Psalms 83:5\83:4\They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

Jeremiah 18:20Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 20:2-14

Jehoshaphat's Prayer to God. ( b. c. 892.) 1 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. 2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi. 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord , and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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