Chronicles II 20:5

5 And Josaphat stood up in the assembly of Juda in Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, in front of the new court.

Chronicles II 20:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 20:5

And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord
In the temple, in the court of the people, where the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem were assembled, in the midst of which he stood very probably on the brasen scaffold erected by Solomon, ( 2 Chronicles 6:13 ) , before the new court:
which must be the court of the priests, for he stood in the great court, or court of the people, and before this, which might be so called, because renewed or repaired when the altar was by Asa, ( 2 Chronicles 15:8 ) . Dr. Lightfoot ^F20 thinks it was the court of the women; but it is a question whether there was any such court in the first temple; or that the great court was then divided into two, one for the men, the other for the women.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Prospect of the Temple, ch 18. p. 1090.

Chronicles II 20:5 In-Context

3 And Josaphat was alarmed, and set his face to seek the Lord earnestly, and he proclaimed a fast in all Juda.

4 And Juda gathered themselves together to seek after the Lord: even from all the cities of Juda they came to seek the Lord.

5 And Josaphat stood up in the assembly of Juda in Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, in front of the new court.

6 And he said, O Lord God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above, and art not thou Lord of all the kingdoms of the nations? and not in thy hand the might of dominion, and there is no one who can resist thee?

7 Art not thou the Lord that didst destroy the inhabitants of this land before the face of thy people Israel, and didst give it to thy beloved seed of Abraham for ever?