2 Chronicles 20:11

See how they're rewarding us, coming to steal the land you gave us to possess forever!

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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

10Look, here come the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, those very countries you did not let Israel invade when they came out of Egypt. Israel left them alone and did not destroy them.

12Our God, won't you punish them, because we don't have the power to confront such a great army that is marching against us? We don't know what to do. We're looking to you for help.”

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Cross References

Genesis 12:7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I'm going to give this land to your descendants.” So Abram built an altar to the Lord there because that was where the Lord appeared to him.

Deuteronomy 4:38driving out ahead of you nations that were greater and stronger than you, in order to lead you to their land and give it to you as yours to own, just as you do today.

Judges 11:23It was the Lord, the God of Israel, who drove out the Amorites before his people Israel, so why should you take it over?

Psalms 35:12They pay me back with evil instead of good. I feel like giving up.

Psalms 83:5They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—

Jeremiah 18:20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to trap me! Remember how I stood before you to plead on their behalf, to stop you being angry with 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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