2 Chronicles 20:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Our god

Drive out

Exodus 33:2

Psalm 44:2

Gavest

Thy friend

General references

Genesis 13:15

Genesis 18:17

Bible References

Our god

Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God: “Lord, there is no one besides You to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, Lord our God, for we depend on You, and in Your name we have come against this large army. Yahweh, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder You.”

I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.

I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who delivered you from the forced labor of the Egyptians.

Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

And who is like Your people Israel? God, You came to one nation on earth to redeem a people for Yourself, to make a name for Yourself through great and awesome works by driving out nations before Your people You redeemed from Egypt.

Drive out

I will send an angel ahead of you and will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

to plant them,
You drove out the nations with Your hand;
to settle them,
You crushed the peoples.

Gavest

Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see.

But I took your father Abraham from the region beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

You found his heart faithful in Your sight,
and made a covenant with him
to give the land of the Canaanites,
Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,
Jebusites, and Girgashites—
to give it to his descendants.
You have kept Your promise,
for You are righteous.

Thy friend

But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham, My friend—

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master

is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

and he was called God’s friend.

General references

for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see.

Then the Lord said, “Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?