2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
2 Chronicles 20:12 in other translations
| BSB | Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.” |
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| WEB | Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” |
| ASV | O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. |
| YLT | ‘O our God, dost Thou not execute judgment upon them? for there is no power in us before this great multitude that hath come against us, and we know not what we do, but on Thee are our eyes.' |
| DARBY | Our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might in presence of this great company which cometh against us, neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee. |
| BBE | O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you. |
| Webster | O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. |
What does 2 Chronicles 20:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 20:5-13
5-13. Jehoshaphat stood ... in the house of the Lord, before the new court--that is, the great or outer court (2Ch 4:9) called the new court, probably from having been at that time enlarged or beautified.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 20:1-13
In all dangers, public or personal, our first business should be to seek help from God. Hence the advantage of days for national fasting and prayer. From the first to the last of our seeking the Lord, we must approach him with humiliation for our sins, trusting only in his mercy and power. Jehoshaphat acknowledges the sovereign dominion of the Divine Providence. Lord, exert it on our behalf. Whom should we seek to…
2 Chronicles 20:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 20:12
- Psalms 121:1-2
A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
- Psalms 25:15
Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
- Psalms 141:8
But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
- Psalms 123:1-2
A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
- Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
- 2 Corinthians 1:8-9
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
- Psalms 9:19
Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
- Psalms 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Judges 11:27
Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the Lord the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
- 1 Samuel 3:13
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
- 2 Samuel 14:11
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
- Jonah 2:4
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 20:11
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
- 2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
- 2 Chronicles 20:13
And all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
2 Chronicles 20:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¡Oh Dios nuestro! ¿no los juzgarás tú? porque en nosotros no hay fuerza contra tan grande multitud que viene contra nosotros: no sabemos lo que hemos de hacer, mas á ti volvemos nuestros ojos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ô notre Dieu, ne les jugeras-tu pas? car il n’y a point de force en nous devant cette grande multitude qui vient contre nous, et nous ne savons ce que nous devons faire, mais nos yeux sont sur toi! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Unser Gott, willst du sie nicht richten? Denn in uns ist keine Kraft vor dieser großen Menge, die wider uns kommt; und wir wissen nicht, was wir tun sollen, sondern auf dich sind unsere Augen gerichtet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Deus noster, ergo non judicabis eos? in nobis quidem non est tanta fortitudo, ut possimus huic multitudini resistere, quæ irruit super nos. Sed cum ignoremus quid agere debeamus, hoc solum habemus residui, ut oculos nostros dirigamus ad te. |