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Good News Translation

2 Chronicles 20:13

All the men of Judah, with their wives and children, were standing there at the Temple.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat, Valley of;   War;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Moab, Moabites ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Edox, Idumea;   Hezekiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All Judah was standing before the Lord with their dependents, their wives, and their children.
Hebrew Names Version
All Yehudah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
King James Version
And all Judah stood before the Lord , with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
English Standard Version
Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord , with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
New Century Version
All the men of Judah stood before the Lord with their babies, wives, and children.
New English Translation
All the men of Judah were standing before the Lord , along with their infants, wives, and children.
Amplified Bible
So all Judah stood before the LORD, with their infants, their wives, and their children.
New American Standard Bible
All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives, and their children.
World English Bible
All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all Iudah stoode before the Lorde with their yong ones, their wiues, and their children.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now all Judah was standing before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Berean Standard Bible
Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
While every man, woman, and child of Judah was standing there at the temple,
Complete Jewish Bible
All Y'hudah stood before Adonai with their little ones, their wives and their children.
Darby Translation
And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.
Easy-to-Read Version
All the men of Judah stood before the Lord with their wives, babies, and children.
George Lamsa Translation
And all Judah stood before the LORD with their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.
Lexham English Bible
And all Judah was standing before Yahweh, and also their little children, their wives, and their children.
Literal Translation
And all Judah was standing before Jehovah, and their infants and their wives and their sons.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all Iuda stode before the LORDE, with their children, wyues and sonnes.
American Standard Version
And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Bible in Basic English
And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all Iuda stoode before the Lorde, with their young ones, their wiues, and their children.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
King James Version (1611)
And all Iudah stood before the Lord, with their litle ones, their wiues and their children.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all Juda was standing before the Lord, and their children, and their wives.
English Revised Version
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli al Juda stood bifor the Lord, with her litle children and wyues and fre children.
Update Bible Version
And all Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
New King James Version
Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the LORD.
New Living Translation
As all the men of Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones, wives, and children,
New Life Bible
And all the men of Judah were standing before the Lord, with their babies, their wives, and their children.
New Revised Standard
Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord , with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, all Judah, were standing before Yahweh, - also their little ones, their wives and their children.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and their wives, and their children.
Revised Standard Version
Meanwhile all the men of Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Young's Literal Translation
And all Judah are standing before Jehovah, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.
THE MESSAGE
Everyone in Judah was there—little children, wives, sons—all present and attentive to God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children.

Contextual Overview

1 Some time later the armies of Moab and Ammon, together with their allies, the Meunites, invaded Judah. 2 Some messengers came and announced to King Jehoshaphat: "A large army from Edom has come from the other side of the Dead Sea to attack you. They have already captured Hazazon Tamar." (This is another name for Engedi.) 3 Jehoshaphat was frightened and prayed to the Lord for guidance. Then he gave orders for a fast to be observed throughout the country. 4 From every city of Judah people hurried to Jerusalem to ask the Lord for guidance, 5 and they and the people of Jerusalem gathered in the new courtyard of the Temple. King Jehoshaphat went and stood before them 6 and prayed aloud, "O Lord God of our ancestors, you rule in heaven over all the nations of the world. You are powerful and mighty, and no one can oppose you. 7 You are our God. When your people Israel moved into this land, you drove out the people who were living here and gave the land to the descendants of Abraham, your friend, to be theirs forever. 8 They have lived here and have built a temple to honor you, knowing 9 that if any disaster struck them to punish them—a war, an epidemic, or a famine—then they could come and stand in front of this Temple where you are worshiped. They could pray to you in their trouble, and you would hear them and rescue them. 10 "Now the people of Ammon, Moab, and Edom have attacked us. When our ancestors came out of Egypt, you did not allow them to enter those lands, so our ancestors went around them and did not destroy them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all Judah: Deuteronomy 29:10, Ezra 10:1, Jonah 3:5, Acts 21:5

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:5 - Stand up Nehemiah 12:43 - the wives also Joel 1:14 - the elders Joel 2:16 - assemble Luke 18:16 - Suffer

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.
Genesis 12:9
Then he moved on from place to place, going toward the southern part of Canaan.
Genesis 20:3
One night God appeared to him in a dream and said, "You are going to die, because you have taken this woman; she is already married."
Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself said that she was his sister, and she said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience, and I have done no wrong."
Genesis 20:11
Abraham answered, "I thought that there would be no one here who has reverence for God and that they would kill me to get my wife.
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul answered, "May the Lord bless you for being so kind to me!
Psalms 64:5
They encourage each other in their evil plots; they talk about where they will place their traps. "No one can see them," they say.
Acts 5:9
So Peter said to her, "Why did you and your husband decide to put the Lord's Spirit to the test? The men who buried your husband are at the door right now, and they will carry you out too!"
Hebrews 11:8
It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all Judah stood before the Lord,.... Looking towards the most holy place, where the ark of his presence was, in an humble and submissive posture; waiting what would be the issue of things, what answer they should have from the Lord:

with their little ones, their wives, and their children: they and their wives, with their children, both small and grown up, which they brought with them, that as the sight of them, now in the utmost danger, might affect them, and make them the more fervent in their supplications to God, so they might hope the Lord would have pity and compassion on them, and save them.


 
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