2 Chronicles 20:10

See now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; instead, Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

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And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

In Context

9'If disaster comes on us—the sword, judgment, or disease, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and we will cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear us and save us.' + 20:9 Instead of judgment , some ancient and modern versions read flood .

11See how they are rewarding us; they are coming to drive us out of your land that you have given us to inherit.

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Cross References

Numbers 20:21The king of Edom refused to allow Israel to cross over their border. Because of this, Israel turned away from the land of Edom.

Deuteronomy 2:9Yahweh said to me, 'Do not trouble Moab, and do not fight with them in battle. For I will not give you his land for your own possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot, for their possession.'

Judges 11:15and he said, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab and the land of the people of Ammon,

2 Chronicles 20:22When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set men in ambush against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who were coming against Judah. They were defeated.

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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