2 Chronicles 20:6-16

6 and he said, "O LORD, the God of our fathers, 1are You not God in the heavens? And 2are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You.
7 "Did You not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before * Your people Israel and 3give it to the descendants of 4Abraham Your friend forever?
8 "They have lived in it, and have built You a sanctuary there for Your name, saying,
9 '5Should evil come upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before You (for 6Your name is in this house ) and cry to You in our distress, and You will hear and deliver us.'
10 "Now behold, 7the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, 8whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt (they turned aside from them and did not destroy them),
11 see how they are rewarding us by 9coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.
12 "O our God, 10will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but 11our eyes are on You."
13 All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children.

Jahaziel Answers the Prayer

14 Then in the midst of the assembly 12the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite of the sons of Asaph;
15 and he said, "Listen, all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: thus says the LORD to you, '13Do not fear or be dismayed because * of this great multitude, for 14the battle is not yours but God's.
16 'Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.

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Cross References 14

  • 1. Deuteronomy 4:39
  • 2. 1 Chronicles 29:11
  • 3. Isaiah 41:8
  • 4. James 2:23
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 6:28-30
  • 6. 2 Chronicles 6:20
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 20:1, 22
  • 8. Numbers 20:17-21
  • 9. Psalms 83:12
  • 10. Judges 11:27
  • 11. Psalms 25:15; Psalms 121:1, 2
  • 12. 2 Chronicles 15:1; 2 Chronicles 24:20
  • 13. Exodus 14:13; Deuteronomy 20:1-4; 2 Chronicles 32:7, 8
  • 14. 1 Samuel 17:47

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