2 Chronicles 20:9-11

Jehoshaphat's Prayer

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.

1. 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!
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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.)
   
6. 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.
   
7. Cross References
   Numbers 20:21
   Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.
   
8. 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.