2 Chronicles 20:11

Hinei, what gomelim (ones repaying) they are to us, to come to drive us out of Thy yerushah (inheritance), which Thou hast given us.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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, hinei, the Bnei Ammon and Moav and Mt Se'ir, whom Thou wouldest not let Yisroel invade, when they came out of Eretz Mitzrayim, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not,

12O Eloheinu, wilt Thou not judge them? For we have no ko'ach against this great multitude that cometh against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon Thee.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:7And Hashem appeared unto Avram, and said, Unto thy zera will I give ha'aretz hazot: and there built he a mizbe'ach unto Hashem, Who appeared unto him.

Deuteronomy 4:38To drive out Goyim from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for a nachalah, as it is yom hazeh.

Judges 11:23So now Hashem Elohei Yisroel hath dispossessed HaEmori from before His people Yisroel, and shouldest thou possess it?

Psalms 35:12They repay me ra'ah for tovah 1 to the forlornness of my nefesh. 1

Psalms 83:5They have said: Come, 1 and let us cut them off from being a goy (nation); 1 that the shem Yisroel may be no more remembered. 1

Jeremiah 18:20Shall ra'ah be repaid for tovah? 1 For they have dug a pit for my nefesh. 1 Remember that I stood before Thee to speak tovah concerning them, 1 and to turn away Thy wrath from them. 1

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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