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2 Chronicles 20:11

But see the kind of reward those people give us for not destroying them. They have come to force us out of your land that you gave to us.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Battle;   Faithfulness;   Jehoshaphat;   Prayer;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jehoshaphat;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;   Prayer, Answers to;   Prayer, Public;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat, Valley of;   War;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Moab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Chronicles, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Gebal;   Moab;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Synagogue;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Moab, Moabites ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Jehoshaphat (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Edox, Idumea;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look how they repay us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us as an inheritance.
Hebrew Names Version
behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
King James Version
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
English Standard Version
behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
New Century Version
But see how they repay us for not destroying them! They have come to force us out of your land, which you gave us as our own.
New English Translation
Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!
Amplified Bible
here they are, rewarding us by coming to drive us out of Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.
New American Standard Bible
see how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.
World English Bible
behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Behold, I say, they reward vs, in comming to cast vs out of thine inheritance, which thou hast caused vs to inherit.
Legacy Standard Bible
and behold, they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have caused us to possess.
Berean Standard Bible
See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.
Contemporary English Version
Now they are coming to take back the land you gave us.
Complete Jewish Bible
are now repaying us [evil]; they have come to throw us out of your possession, which you gave us as an inheritance.
Darby Translation
behold, they reward us, in coming to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to possess.
George Lamsa Translation
Behold, now they reward us; they are coming to drive us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Good News Translation
This is how they repay us—they come to drive us out of the land that you gave us.
Lexham English Bible
now behold, they are rewarding us by coming to dispossess us from your possession which you gave us as an inheritance.
Literal Translation
yea, behold, they are repaying us by coming in to drive us out of Your possession, that You have caused us to possess.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and beholde, they deale contrarely with vs, and come to thrust vs out of the inheritaunce, that thou hast geuen vs in possession.
American Standard Version
behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Bible in Basic English
See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
See howe they rewarde vs, to come for to cast vs out of thy possession whiche thou hast geuen vs to inherite.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
behold, they render unto us [evil], to come to cast us out of Thy possession, which Thou hast given us to inherit.
King James Version (1611)
Beholde, I say, how they reward vs, to come to cast vs out of thy possession, which thou hast giuen vs to inherit.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
yet now, behold, they make attempts against us, to come forth to cast us out from our inheritance which thou gavest us.
English Revised Version
behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thei doon ayenward, and enforsen to caste vs out of the possessioun, which thou, oure God, hast youe to vs;
Update Bible Version
look, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, [I say], [how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
New King James Version
here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.
New Living Translation
Now see how they reward us! For they have come to throw us out of your land, which you gave us as an inheritance.
New Life Bible
Look how they are paying us back. They are coming to make us leave Your land which You have given to us.
New Revised Standard
they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you have given us to inherit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yea lo! they, are requiting us, - by coming to drive us out, from thy possession, which thou didst cause us to possess.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.
Revised Standard Version
behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Young's Literal Translation
and lo, they are recompensing to us -- to come in to drive us out of Thy possession, that Thou hast caused us to possess.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
see how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.

Contextual Overview

1 Later, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and some Meunites came to start a war with Jehoshaphat. 2 Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "There is a large army coming against you from Edom. They are coming from the other side of the Dead Sea. They are already in Hazazon Tamar!" (Hazazon Tamar is also called En Gedi.) 3 Jehoshaphat became afraid, and he decided to ask the Lord what to do. He announced a time of fasting for everyone in Judah. 4 The people of Judah came together to ask the Lord for help. They came from out of all the towns of Judah to ask for the Lord 's help. 5 Jehoshaphat was in the new courtyard of the Lord 's Temple. He stood up in the meeting of the people from Judah and Jerusalem 6 and said, " Lord God of our ancestors, you are the God in heaven. You rule over all the kingdoms in all the nations. You have power and strength. No one can stand against you. 7 You are our God! You forced the people living in this land to leave. You did this in front of your people Israel. You gave this land to the descendants of Abraham forever. Abraham was your friend. 8 His descendants lived in this land, and built a Temple for your name. 9 They said, ‘If trouble comes to us—the sword, punishment, sicknesses, or famine—we will stand in front of this Temple and in front of you. Your name is on this Temple. We will shout to you when we are in trouble. Then you will hear and save us.' 10 "But now, here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir. You would not let the Israelites enter their lands when they came out of Egypt. So the Israelites turned away and didn't destroy them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

how they reward us: Six of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's manuscripts and raah, "evil:" "Behold they reward us evil:" which is also the reading of the Targum. Genesis 44:4, Psalms 7:4, Psalms 35:12, Proverbs 17:13, Jeremiah 18:20

to cast us: Judges 11:23, Judges 11:24, Psalms 83:3-12

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 24:24 - delivered Psalms 83:6 - Edom Psalms 83:12 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptian men see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife.' Then they will kill me and keep you alive because they want you.
Genesis 20:1
Abraham left that place and traveled to the Negev. He settled in the city of Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur. While in Gerar,
Genesis 20:4
But Abimelech had not yet slept with Sarah, so he said, "Lord, I am not guilty. Would you kill an innocent man?
Genesis 22:12
The angel said, "Don't kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you do respect and obey God. I see that you are ready to kill your son, your only son, for me."
Genesis 26:7
His wife Rebekah was very beautiful. The men of that place asked Isaac about Rebekah. He said, "She is my sister." He was afraid to tell them Rebekah was his wife. He was afraid the men would kill him so that they could have her.
Genesis 42:18
After three days Joseph said to them, "I am a God-fearing man. Do this, and I will let you live.
Nehemiah 5:15
But the governors who ruled before me made life hard for the people. The governors forced everyone to pay 1 pound of silver. They also made the people give them food and wine. The leaders under these governors also ruled over the people and made life even harder. But I respected and feared God, so I didn't do things like that.
Job 1:1
There was a man named Job who lived in the country of Uz. He was a good, honest man. He respected God and refused to do evil.
Job 28:28
Then he said to humans, ‘To fear and respect the Lord is wisdom. To turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Psalms 14:4
Those who are evil treat my people like bread to be eaten. And they never ask for the Lord 's help. Don't they know what they are doing?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I say, how they reward us,.... Evil for good:

to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit; the land of Canaan was their inheritance, an inheritance given them by God, their covenant God and Father, who had a right to dispose of it; and yet so given, that it was still his possession, he was the Lord and Proprietor, they but tenants under him; all which, as they were so many aggravations of the guilt of their enemies, so they were so many arguments with the Lord to protect them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 20:11. They reward us — Six of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. add רעה evil: "Behold, they reward us EVIL." This is also the reading of the Targum.


 
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