2 Chronicles 13:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

God

Romans 8:31

For our captain

His priests

Numbers 10:8

Numbers 31:6

Joshua 6:13

Fight ye

Ye shall not

Ezekiel 17:9

General references

Numbers 10:8

Deuteronomy 20:2

Bible References

God

He has no regard [for] evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God [is] with him, and a shout of a king [is] among them.

Now when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh arrived at the camp, all Israel {let out a loud shout} so that the earth shook.

{Make a plan}, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!

And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of [the] streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh [is] with them, and they will put to shame [the] riders on horses.

What then shall we say about these [things]? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

For our captain

for Yahweh your God [is] going with you to fight for you against your enemies to help you.'

And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, {he looked up}, and he saw a man standing {opposite him} [with] his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said, "Are you with us, or with our adversaries?"

{Some boast in chariots and others in horses}, but we boast in the name of Yahweh, our God.

For it was fitting for him for whom [are] all [things] and through whom [are] all [things] in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.

His priests

The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations.

Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast [were] in his hand.

The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of the rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and they blew on the trumpets. And the armed [men] went before them, and [the] rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh, while the trumpets blew continually.

Fight ye

Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai;

Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Woe [to the] one who strives with his {maker}, a potsherd among potsherds of earth! Does [the] clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'?

I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, Babylon. But you yourself [did] not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself.

But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you even be found fighting against God." So they were persuaded by him.

And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

Ye shall not

Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus says God: 'Why are you transgressing the commandments of Yahweh so that you will not succeed? For you have forsaken Yahweh, so he will forsake you.'"

But Moses said, "Why [are] you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed.

And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed [in finding] your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed {all the time}, and there will not be {anyone who will rescue you}.

[He is] wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue [that] rises against you for judgment. This [is] the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, and their {legal right} from me," {declares} Yahweh.

Also from there you will come out with your hands on your head, for Yahweh has rejected {those in whom you trust}, and you will not prosper through them.

Say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Will it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots, and will he not make its fruit scaly, and it will wither, and all of the freshness of its vegetation will dry up? And to lift it from its roots {will not require great strength or many people}.

General references

The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations.

{And then} when you approach the battle, then the priest shall come near and speak to the troops.