◄ 2 Chronicles 20:11 ►
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Good News Translation
This is how they repay us--they come to drive us out of the land that you gave us.

New Revised Standard Version
they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you have given us to inherit.

Contemporary English Version
Now they are coming to take back the land you gave us.

New American Bible
See how they are now repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you have given us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.

how they reward us Six of Dr.

Genesis 44:4 And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?

Psalm 7:4 If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.

Psalm 35:12 They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

Proverbs 17:13 He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

to cast us

Judges 11:23,24 So the Lord, the God of Israel, destroyed the Amorrhite, his people of Israel fighting against him, and wilt thou now possess his land? . . .

Psalm 83:3-12 They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints. . . .

Context
Jehoshaphat's Prayer
…10Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and mount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass, when they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew them not, 11Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.12O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not strength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh violently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes to thee.…
Cross References
Psalm 83:12
Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not strength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh violently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes to thee.

2 Chronicles 20:10
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