OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

2 Chronicles 20:7

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Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

2 Chronicles 20:7 in context

2 Chronicles 20:4–10

4

Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from the LORD. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD.

5

Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the LORD’s house, before the new court;

6

and he said, “LORD, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

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Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

8

They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

9

‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’

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Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;

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