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Thursday, August 21st, 2025
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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New Living Translation

2 Chronicles 20:13

As all the men of Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones, wives, and children,

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 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 After this, the armies of the Moabites, Ammonites, and some of the Meunites declared war on Jehoshaphat. 2 Messengers came and told Jehoshaphat, "A vast army from Edom is marching against you from beyond the Dead Sea. They are already at Hazazon-tamar." (This was another name for En-gedi.) 3 Jehoshaphat was terrified by this news and begged the Lord for guidance. He also ordered everyone in Judah to begin fasting. 4 So people from all the towns of Judah came to Jerusalem to seek the Lord 's help. 5 Jehoshaphat stood before the community of Judah and Jerusalem in front of the new courtyard at the Temple of the Lord . 6 He prayed, "O Lord , God of our ancestors, you alone are the God who is in heaven. You are ruler of all the kingdoms of the earth. You are powerful and mighty; no one can stand against you! 7 O our God, did you not drive out those who lived in this land when your people Israel arrived? And did you not give this land forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham? 8 Your people settled here and built this Temple to honor your name. 9 They said, ‘Whenever we are faced with any calamity such as war, plague, or famine, we can come to stand in your presence before this Temple where your name is honored. We can cry out to you to save us, and you will hear us and rescue us.' 10 "And now see what the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir are doing. You would not let our ancestors invade those nations when Israel left Egypt, so they 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 had said to Abram, "Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 12:9
Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.
Genesis 20:3
But that night God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are a dead man, for that woman you have taken is already married!"
Genesis 20:5
Didn't Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister'? And she herself said, ‘Yes, he is my brother.' I acted in complete innocence! My hands are clean."
Genesis 20:11
Abraham replied, "I thought, ‘This is a godless place. They will want my wife and will kill me to get her.'
1 Samuel 23:21
"The Lord bless you," Saul said. "At last someone is concerned about me!
Psalms 64:5
They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps in secret. "Who will ever notice?" they ask.
Acts 5:9
And Peter said, "How could the two of you even think of conspiring to test the Spirit of the Lord like this? The young men who buried your husband are just outside the door, and they will carry you out, too."
Hebrews 11:8
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went 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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