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THE MESSAGE

2 Chronicles 20:13

Everyone in Judah was there—little children, wives, sons—all present and attentive to God .

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.
Good News Translation
All the men of Judah, with their wives and children, were standing there at the Temple.
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children.

Contextual Overview

1Some time later the Moabites and Ammonites, accompanied by Meunites, joined forces to make war on Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat received this intelligence report: "A huge force is on its way from beyond the Dead Sea to fight you. There's no time to waste—they're already at Hazazon Tamar, the oasis of En Gedi." 3Shaken, Jehoshaphat prayed. He went to God for help and ordered a nationwide fast. The country of Judah united in seeking God 's help—they came from all the cities of Judah to pray to God . 5Then Jehoshaphat took a position before the assembled people of Judah and Jerusalem at The Temple of God in front of the new courtyard and said, "O God , God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven above and ruler of all kingdoms below? You hold all power and might in your fist—no one stands a chance against you! And didn't you make the natives of this land leave as you brought your people Israel in, turning it over permanently to your people Israel, the descendants of Abraham your friend? They have lived here and built a holy house of worship to honor you, saying, ‘When the worst happens—whether war or flood or disease or famine—and we take our place before this Temple (we know you are personally present in this place!) and pray out our pain and trouble, we know that you will listen and give victory.' 10"And now it's happened: men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir have shown up. You didn't let Israel touch them when we got here at first—we detoured around them and didn't lay a hand on them. And now they've come to kick us out of the country you gave us. O dear God, won't you take care of them? We're helpless before this vandal horde ready to attack us. We don't know what to do; we're looking to you." 13 Everyone in Judah was there—little children, wives, sons—all present and attentive to God .

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
God told Abram: "Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you.
Genesis 12:9
Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.
Genesis 20:3
Abraham traveled from there south to the Negev and settled down between Kadesh and Shur. While he was camping in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream that night and told him, "You're as good as dead—that woman you took, she's a married woman."
Genesis 20:11
Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'"
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, " God bless you for thinking about me! Now go back and check everything out. Learn his routines. Observe his movements—where he goes, who he's with. He's very shrewd, you know. Scout out all his hiding places. Then meet me at Nacon and I'll go with you. If he is anywhere to be found in all the thousands of Judah, I'll track him down!"
Acts 5:9
Peter responded, "What's going on here that you connived to conspire against the Spirit of the Master? The men who buried your husband are at the door, and you're next." No sooner were the words out of his mouth than she also fell down, dead. When the young men returned they found her body. They carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
Hebrews 11:8
By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.

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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