Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
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Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
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Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
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Didst not Thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend for ever?
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 20:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 41:8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
- James 2:23 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
- Genesis 12:7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
- Psalms 44:2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
- Genesis 13:15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
- Joshua 24:3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.
- Nehemiah 9:8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
- Exodus 6:7 I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 33:2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 17:21-24 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken. Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’
- 2 Chronicles 14:11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
- Genesis 17:7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Exodus 19:5-7 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.” Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
- Exodus 20:2 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- John 11:11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
- Joshua 24:13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
- John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He groundeth his prayer upon God’s power, whereby he…
He groundeth his prayer upon God’s power, whereby he is able to help, and also on his mercy, which he will continue toward his, forasmuch as he hath once chosen them and began to show his graces toward them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 20:7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst…
2Ch 20:7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
Ver. 7. Art not thou our God?] God’s might and his mercy are faith’s Jachin and Boaz, whereon it resteth.
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And gavest it to the seed of Abraham.] So that we are thy tenants, thy vassals; and wilt not thou see to us? Sure thou wilt.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. To whom thou hast engaged thyself by covenant…
i.e. To whom thou hast engaged thyself by covenant to be his friend, and the friend of his seed for ever, and therefore we trust thou wilt not forsake us his posterity.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Art not thou our God,.... In a peculiar sense,…
Art not thou our God,.... In a peculiar sense, not merely as the Creator and Governor of men, but in a covenant relation their covenant God and Father:
who didst drive out the inhabitants of the land before thy people Israel; the seven nations of Canaan, to make way and room for Israel:
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and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? made a deed of gift of it to them, and settled it on them till the coming of the Messiah, and that as an instance of love and friendship to Abraham; and wilt thou therefore suffer it to be taken from his seed?
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Abraham - To whom thou hast engaged thyself by…
Abraham - To whom thou hast engaged thyself by covenant to be his friend, and the friend of his seed forever. 9. The sword - Or rather, the sword of judgement or of vengeance, that is, war, whereby thou punisheth thy people for their sins.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Art not thou our God] "Hast not…
Verse 7. Art not thou our God] "Hast not thou, by thy WORD, driven out." - Targum.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain All, or the greatest part. Heb. "drive out the…
All, or the greatest part. Heb. "drive out the inhabitants." H.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. Art not thou our God, who didst drive…
7. Art not thou our God, who didst drive out] R.V. Didst not thou, O our God, drive out. Cp. Deu_9:5.
thy friend] Cp. Isa_41:8.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) Art not thou our God?—Didst not Thou, our…
(7) Art not thou our God?—Didst not Thou, our God, drive out, &c. (Comp. Jos_23:5; Jos_23:9; Deu_4:38; Deu_11:23; and for the form of appeal, Isa. Ii. 9, 10. Comp. also Psa_47:3-4.)
And gavest it to the seed of Abraham.—According to the Promise, Gen_13:15-16; Gen_15:18.
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For ever.—Gen_17:8, “for an everlasting possession.”
Thy friend.—Or, lover. So Isa_41:8, “seed of Abraham, my friend.” This title of Abraham is mentioned again by St. James (Jas_2:23). Hebron, the patriarch’s burial-place, is at this day known to the Muslim world as el-Khalil, “the Friend.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Friendship with God.
Friendship with God.
"Abraham thy friend.
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1. Before Jesus came to reveal God to our race as he did reveal him, theEternal One was known and worshipped chiefly as the Almighty One, or as the Creator of all things, or as the Divine Sovereign, whose rule we are bound to obey. Not exclusively; for he was known as the Father of men (Deu_32:6; 1Ch_29:10; Isa_63:16 Isa_64:8; Psa_103:13) Here also he is spoken of as a Friend (and see (Isa_41:8; Jam_2:23) But it is evident that it was only in a restricted sense, and by a very limited number, that God was thus apprehended.
2. It was Jesus Christ that revealed the Father as the Father of souls; it washe who taught us to address him as such, to think and speak of him as such, to approach him and to live before him as such.
3. It is Jesus Christ also who has enabled us to think and to feel towardGod as our Friend. "I have called you friends," he said to his disciples. (Joh_15:15) And he has so related himself to us that in him we can recognize God as our Divine Friend; as One of whom we may rightly speak, and toward whom we may venture to feel and to act as our Friend indeed. But on what ground and in what respects? On the ground of
I RECIPROCATED LOVE; including, what all true love must include, both affection and trust. God loves us. He loves us with parental affection, as his children who were once indeed estranged from him, but are now reconciled unto him; as those who have become endeared to him, both by his great sacrifice for their sake, and by their seeking after him and surrender of themselves to him. And God trusts us. He does not treat us as slaves, but as sons; he does not lay down a strict and severe code of rules by which our daily conduct is to be regulated; he gives us a few broad principles, and he trusts us to apply them to our own circumstances. We, in return, love and trust him. Not having seen him, but having understood his character and his disposition toward us in Jesus Christ, having realized how great and all-surpassing was his kindness toward us in him, (Tit_3:4) we love him in response. (1Jn_4:19) And in him, in his faithfulness and in his wisdom and in his goodness, we have an unfaltering trust. Thus we have the reciprocal love of friendship.
II CLOSE RESEMBLANCE OF CHARACTER AND SYMPATHY. There cannot be friendship worthy of the name where there is not this. Our character and our sympathies must be essentially alike, must be substantially the same. And so it is with the Divine Lord and those who worthily bear his Name. His character is theirs; his principles are theirs; his sympathies are theirs. What he loves and what he hates, they love and they hate. Towards all that to which (and towards all those to whom) he is drawn, they are drawn; that which repels him repels them. Here is the true basis of friendship, and even that distance of nature that separates the Divine from the human is no barrier in the way. Being so essentially like Christ as his true followers are, they are his friends and he is theirs.
III ONENESS OF AIM AND ACTION. Friendship is established and nourished by a common aim and by fellow-labouring. They who join heart and hand in any noble enterprise become united together in strong bonds of true companionship. It is so with our Master and ourselves. He is engaged in the sublime task of recovering a lost world to the knowledge, the love, the likeness of God; so are we. He has laboured and suffered to achieve that most glorious end; so do we. We are "workers together with him." His cause is ours; he and we are bent on the fulfilment of the same great purpose; and while he works through us and in us, he also works with us in this greatest and noblest of all earthly aims. "We are labourers together with God"; (1Co_3:9) "We then, as workers together with. (2Co_6:1) We are his friends. Let us:
1. Realize how high is the honour he has thus conferred upon us.
2. See that we walk worthily of such a lofty estate.
3. Take care that we never do that or become that which will make usforfeit so great a heritage. Let us be found faithful as the friends of God. C.
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