2 Chronicles 20:7
'Art not Thou our God? Thou hast dispossessed the inhabitants of this land from before Thy people Israel, and dost give it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend to the age,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8and they dwell in it, and build to Thee in it a sanctuary for Thy name, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 13:15for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed — to the age.
Exodus 6:7and have taken you to Me for a people, and I have been to you for God, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah your God, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;
Exodus 20:2I [am] Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.
Deuteronomy 4:38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land — an inheritance, as [at] this day.
Joshua 23:9And Jehovah is dispossessing from before you nations great and mighty; as for you, none hath stood in your presence till this day;
Joshua 24:13'And I give to you a land for which thou hast not laboured, and cities which ye have not built, and ye dwell in them; of vineyards and olive-yards which ye have not planted ye are eating.
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 →