2 Chronicles 20:11

and behold, they are repaying to us—to come to drive us out of Your possession that You have caused us to possess.

Literal Standard Version

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, behold, sons of Ammon, and Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not grant to Israel to go in against in their coming out of the land of Egypt, for they turned aside from off them and did not destroy them,

12O our God, do You not execute judgment on them? For there is no power in us before this great multitude that has come against us, and we do not know what we do, but our eyes [are] on You.”

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Cross References

Genesis 12:7And YHWH appears to Abram and says, “To your seed I give this land”; and there he builds an altar to YHWH, who has appeared to him.

Deuteronomy 4:38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you from your presence, to bring you in to give their land to you [for] an inheritance, as [at] this day.

Judges 11:23And now, YHWH, God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and you would possess it!

Psalms 35:12They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,

Psalms 83:5For they consulted in heart together, || They make a covenant against You,

Jeremiah 18:20Is evil repaid instead of good, || That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before You to speak good of them, || To turn back Your wrath 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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