2 Chronicles 20:12
O 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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In Context
13And all Judah is standing before YHWH, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:36For YHWH judges His people, || And gives comfort over His servants. For He sees the going away of power, || And none is restrained and left.
1 Samuel 3:13and I have declared to him that I am judging his house for all time, for the iniquity which he has known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he has not restrained them,
2 Samuel 14:11And she says, “Please let the king remember by your God YHWH, that the redeemer of blood does not add to destroy, and they do not destroy my son”; and he says, “YHWH lives; if there falls [even one] hair of your son to the earth.”
2 Kings 6:15And the servant of the man of God rises early, and goes out, and behold, a force is surrounding the city, and horse and chariot, and his young man says to him, “Aah! My lord, how do we do?”
Psalms 7:8YHWH judges the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, || According to my righteousness, || And according to my integrity [that is] on me.
Psalms 25:15My eyes [are] continually to YHWH, || For He brings my feet out from a net.
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 →