2 Chronicles 20:6-12

Jehoshaphat's Prayer

6 and said, "O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not n God in heaven? You o rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. p In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. 7 Did you not, our God, q drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of r Abraham your friend? 8 And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, 9 s 'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, 1 or pestilence, or famine, t we will stand before this house and before you - u for your name is in this house - and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.' 10 And now behold, the men of v Ammon and Moab and w Mount Seir, whom x you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, y and whom they avoided and did not destroy - 11 behold, they reward us z by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12 O our God, will you not a execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but b our eyes are on you."

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:39
    Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
  2. Cross References
    Daniel 4:17
    The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.
    Daniel 4:25
    That you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
    Daniel 4:32
    And you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
  3. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 29:12
    Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 44:2
    You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 41:8
    But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend.
    James 2:23
    And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness" - and he was called a friend of God.
  6. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:28 - 30
    If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
    1 Kings 8:33
    When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house.
    1 Kings 8:37
    If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
    Ezekiel 14:21
    For thus says the Lord God : How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
  7. Cross References
    Ezra 10:1
    While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
  8. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:20
    That your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
  9. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 20:1
    After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.
    2 Chronicles 20:22 - 23
    And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.
  10. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 25:11
    But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.
    2 Chronicles 25:14
    After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.
    Genesis 32:3
    And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
    Genesis 36:8
    So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. ( Esau is Edom.)
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:4 - 5
    And command the people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.
    Deuteronomy 2:9
    And the Lord said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.
    Deuteronomy 2:19
    And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 20:21
    Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.
  13. Cross References
    Psalms 83:6 - 7
    The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites.
    Psalms 83:12
    Who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.
  14. Cross References
    1 Samuel 3:13
    And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 25:15
    My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
    Psalms 123:1 - 2
    To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
    Psalms 141:8
    But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
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