2 Chronicles 18:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

The lord

Psalm 118:13

God moved them

Proverbs 21:1

Bible References

The lord

God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him,
And rescues them.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,

A very present help in trouble.

If the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

You pushed me violently so that I was falling,
But the Lord

helped me.

God moved them

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying:

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name, and make Your servant successful today and grant him compassion before this man.”Now I was the cupbearer to the king.

When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord;
He turns it wherever He wishes.