2 Chronicles 13:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Behold, God Himself is with us at our head, and His priests with their battle trumpets to sound an alarm against you. O Israelites, fight not against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you cannot prosper.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

Common English Bible

¹² Listen! God is on our side, at our head, along with his priests, who are ready to sound the battle trumpets against you. So, Israelites, don’t fight against the LORD, the God of your ancestors, for you won’t succeed!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Therefore, God is the commander of our army, with his priests, who sound the trumpets that ring out against you. O sons of Israel, do not choose to fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers. For it is not expedient for you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good for you.

2 Chronicles 13:12 Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:20

And the spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

2 Chronicles 32:8

with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Job 40:9

Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?

Psalm 20:7

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: But we will make mention of the name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 46:7

The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Isaiah 45:9

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness which is of me, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Jeremiah 2:37

From him also shalt thou go forth, with thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Jeremiah 50:24

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Ezekiel 17:9

Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither; even without great power or much people to pluck it up by the roots thereof?

Zechariah 10:5

And they shall be as mighty men, treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them: and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

Numbers 14:41

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

Numbers 23:21

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: The LORD his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them.

Numbers 31:6

And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

Acts 5:39

but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Deuteronomy 20:4

for the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Deuteronomy 28:29

and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled alway, and there shall be none to save thee.

Hebrews 2:10

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.