2 Chronicles 20:11
in 2 Chronicles 20See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
KJV
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 20
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThey reward us - Six of Kennicott’s and De Rossi’s MSS. add רעה evil: “Behold, they reward us Evil.” This is also the reading of the Targum.
This site's exposition
whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade
on 2 Chronicles 20:10-12
The legal argument sharpens: these are the nations Israel spared at God's own command in Deut 2, and this is how they reward the restraint, coming to cast Judah out of the inheritance. Then the prayer ends with the sentence the whole book keeps as its model: we have no might against this great company, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. Confessed helplessness aimed at God is the posture Chronicles calls strength.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Behold, I say, how they reward us,.... Evil for good: to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit; the land of Canaan was their inheritance, an inheritance given them by God, their covenant God and Father, who had a right to dispose of it; and yet so given, that it was still his possession, he was the Lord and Proprietor, they but tenants under him; all which, as they were so many aggravations of the guilt of their enemies, so they were so many arguments with the Lord to protect them.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
And said, O Lord God of our fathers--This earnest and impressive prayer embraces every topic and argument which, as king and representative of the chosen people, he could urge.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
to drive us out of Your inheritance, which You caused us to inherit You Yourself. Therefore, on what basis can they contest our inheritance?
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And now about all that You promised us to save us from our enemies who are coming upon us.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִ֨נֵּה־ | vehineh- | and here! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| הֵ֔ם | hem | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| גֹּמְלִ֖ים | gomelim | [are] repaying | H1580 → | |
| עָלֵ֑ינוּ | ʾaleinu | to us | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| לָבוֹא֙ | lavo' | by coming | H935 → | 2568 times |
| לְגָ֣רְשֵׁ֔נוּ | legareshenu | to drive out us | H1644 → | |
| מִיְּרֻשָּׁתְךָ֖ | miyerushatekha | from possession your | H3425 → | |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הֽוֹרַשְׁתָּֽנוּ׃ | horashtanu | you caused to possess us | H3423 → | 231 times |
וְהִ֨נֵּה־and here!
vehineh-H2009 →843 times
הֵ֔םthey
hemH1992 →553 times
גֹּמְלִ֖ים[are] repaying
gomelimH1580 →
עָלֵ֑ינוּto us
ʾaleinuH5921 →5755 times
לָבוֹא֙by coming
lavo'H935 →2568 times
לְגָ֣רְשֵׁ֔נוּto drive out us
legareshenuH1644 →
מִיְּרֻשָּׁתְךָ֖from possession your
miyerushatekhaH3425 →
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
הֽוֹרַשְׁתָּֽנוּ׃you caused to possess us
horashtanuH3423 →231 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 35:12They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
it leads to
- John 10:32
But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”
- Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
- Psalms 38:20
Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
- John 10:32
Through
Proverbs 17:13If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
it leads to
- Psalms 109:4–13
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
- Romans 12:17
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
- 1 Peter 3:9
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- Psalms 55:12–15
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
- Psalms 35:12
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
- Psalms 109:4–13
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.