◄ 2 Chronicles 20:8 ►
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Good News Translation
They have lived here and have built a temple to honor you, knowing

New Revised Standard Version
They have lived in it, and in it have built you a sanctuary for your name, saying,

Contemporary English Version
Our ancestors lived in this land and built a temple to honor you.

New American Bible
They have dwelt in it and they built in it a sanctuary for your name. They have said:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name, saying:

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And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name, saying:

built thee

2 Chronicles 2:4 So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to perfume with aromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth of bread, and for the holocausts, morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our God for ever, which are commanded for Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:10 The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and I am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.

Context
Jehoshaphat's Prayer
…7Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? 8And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name, saying:9If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy name is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and thou wilt hear, and save us.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:7
Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

2 Chronicles 20:9
If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy name is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and thou wilt hear, and save us.

2 Chronicles 20:7
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