2 Chronicles 20:13
◄  2 Chronicles 20:13  ►
New International Version (©2011)
All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the LORD.

New Living Translation (©2007)
As all the men of Judah stood before the LORD with their little ones, wives, and children,

English Standard Version (©2001)
Meanwhile all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All Judah was standing before the LORD with their infants, their wives, and their children.

International Standard Version (©2012)
All of Judah was standing in the LORD's presence, along with their little babies, their wives, and their children.

NET Bible (©2006)
All the men of Judah were standing before the LORD, along with their infants, wives, and children.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All the people from Judah, their infants, wives, and children were standing in front of the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

American King James Version
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

American Standard Version
And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with 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.

Darby Bible Translation
And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.

English Revised Version
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

World English Bible
All Judah stood before Yahweh, 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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, whom should we trust to for relief, but the God we have chosen and served. Those that use what they have for God, may comfortably hope he will secure it to them. Every true believer is a son of Abraham, a friend of God; with such the everlasting covenant is established, to such every promise belongs. We are assured of God's love, by his dwelling in human nature in the person of the Saviour. Jehoshaphat mentions the temple, as a token of God's favourable presence. He pleads the injustice of his enemies. We may well appeal to God against those that render us evil for good. Though he had a great army, he said, We have no might without thee; we rely upon thee.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - If the whole narration called for one more touch, it has it in the pathetic, Brief, telling graphicness of this verse. Their little ones. The familiar Hebrew word (טַפָם) is expressive of the quick, tripping step of the young and of women. Gesenius would regard it in this passage as designating the whole family as distinguished from the head of it, and as amplified by "wives" and "children" instanced afterward, quoting the very insufficient support of Genesis 47:12. Our text occurs again in 2 Chronicles 31:18.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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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Jehoshaphat's Prayer
…11Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are on you. 13And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

2 Chronicles 20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
2 Chronicles 20:14 Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph, as he stood in the assembly.