2 Chronicles 20:8

They lived in it and built you a holy place in it for your name, saying,

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In The King James Version

And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

In Context

7Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham?

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 .

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Cross References

Joshua 21:43So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their ancestors. The Israelites took possession of it and settled there.

2 Chronicles 6:5'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, in order for my name to be there. Neither did I choose any man to be prince over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:10Yahweh has carried out the word that he had said, for I have arisen in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised. I have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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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