2 Chronicles 20:4
Good News Translation
From every city of Judah people hurried to Jerusalem to ask the LORD for guidance,

New Revised Standard Version
Judah assembled to seek help from the LORD; from all the towns of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
They immediately left for Jerusalem to ask for the LORD's help.

New American Bible
Then Judah gathered to seek the LORD’s help; from every one of the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities to make supplication to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities to make supplication to him.

ask help of the Lord

Psalm 24:5,6 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. . . .

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 60:10-12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our armies? . . .

the cities

2 Chronicles 19:5 And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda, in every place.

Psalm 69:35 For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.

Context
Jehoshaphat Invaded by Moab
3And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray to the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda. 4And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities to make supplication to him.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:5
And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,

Joel 1:14
Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

Zephaniah 2:1
Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not worthy to be loved:

2 Chronicles 20:3
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