"And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask {help} of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek…" — 2 Chronicles 20:4

2 Chronicles 20:4 · KJV

“And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask {help} of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.”

— 2 Chronicles 20:4

Verse 3

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. {himself: Heb. his face}

Verse 5

And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

2 Chronicles 20 — Context

Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they {be} in Hazazontamar, which {is} Engedi.

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. {himself: Heb. his face}

And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask {help} of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

And said, O LORD God of our fathers, {art} not thou God in heaven? and rulest {not} thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand {is there not} power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

Cross References

Psalms 50:15

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalms 60:10-12

{Wilt} not thou, O God, {which} hadst cast us off? and {thou}, O God, {which} didst not go out with our armies?

Psalms 69:35

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

Psalms 34:5-6

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. {were lightened: or, they flowed unto him}

2 Chronicles 19:5

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,