2 Chronicles 20:6
Good News Translation
and prayed aloud, "O LORD God of our ancestors, you rule in heaven over all the nations of the world. You are powerful and mighty, and no one can oppose you.

New Revised Standard Version
and said, “O LORD, God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven? Do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In your hand are power and might, so that no one is able to withstand you.

Contemporary English Version
and prayed: You, LORD, are the God our ancestors worshiped, and from heaven you rule every nation in the world. You are so powerful that no one can defeat you.

New American Bible
and he said: “LORD, God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven, and do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In your hand is power and might, and no one can withstand you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee.

O Lord

Exodus 3:6,15,16 And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God. . . .

1 Chronicles 29:18 O Lord God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel our fathers, keep for ever this will of their heart, and let this mind remain always for the worship of thee.

God in heaven

Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.

Joshua 2:11 And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your coming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath.

1 Kings 8:23 And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on the earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that have walked before thee with all their heart:

Psalm 115:3 But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.

Isaiah 57:15,16 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. . . .

Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

Matthew 6:9 Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

rulest not

1 Chronicles 29:11,12 Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes. . . .

Psalm 47:2,8 For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth. . . .

Jeremiah 27:5-8 I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes. . . .

Daniel 4:17,25,32-35 The tree which thou sawest, which was high and strong, whose height reached to the skies, and the sight thereof into all the earth: . . .

in thine hand

1 Chronicles 29:11,12 Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes. . . .

Psalm 62:11 God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

none is able

Acts 11:17 If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?

Context
Jehoshaphat's Prayer
5And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court, 6And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee.7Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?…
Cross References
Romans 9:19
Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.

1 Chronicles 29:11
Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes.

1 Chronicles 29:12
Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things.

2 Chronicles 20:5
And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,

2 Chronicles 25:8
And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the army, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it belongeth to God both to help, and to put to flight.

Psalm 54:1
Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. [2] When the men of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David hidden with us? [3] Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.

Isaiah 14:27
For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?

2 Chronicles 20:5
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