2 Chronicles 20:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Our God, you forced out the nations who lived in this land before your people Israel came here, and you gave it to the descendants of your friend Abraham for ever.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

but the LORD appeared to Abram and promised, “I will give this land to your family for ever.” Abram then built an altar there for the LORD.

Genesis 13:15

I will give you and your family all the land you can see. It will be theirs for ever!

Genesis 17:7

I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God.

2 Chronicles 14:11

Asa prayed: LORD God, only you can help a powerless army defeat a stronger one. So we depend on you to help us. We will fight against this powerful army to honour your name, and we know that you won't be defeated. You are the LORD our God.

2 Chronicles 20:8

Our ancestors lived in this land and built a temple to honour you.

Nehemiah 9:8

Because he was faithful, you made an agreement to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, and of the Jebusites and Girgashites. Now you have kept your promise, just as you always do.

Psalm 44:2

You chased off the nations by causing them trouble with your powerful arm. Then you let our ancestors take over their land.

Psalm 44:3

Their strength and weapons were not what won the land and gave them victory! You loved them and fought with your powerful arm and your shining glory.

Psalm 80:8

We were like a grapevine you brought out of Egypt. You chased other nations away and planted us here.

Exodus 20:2

I am the LORD your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

Exodus 33:2

It is a land rich with milk and honey, and I will send an angel to force out those people who live there—the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. I would go with my people, but they are so rebellious that I would destroy them before they get there.

Exodus 6:7

I will accept you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I was the one who rescued you from the Egyptians.

Isaiah 41:8

Israel, you are my servant. I chose you, the family of my friend Abraham.

John 11:11

Then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, and I am going there to wake him up.”

John 15:15

Servants don't know what their master is doing, and so I don't speak to you as my servants. I speak to you as my friends, and I have told you everything that my Father has told me.

Deuteronomy 4:38

Now you face other nations more powerful than you are, but the LORD has already started forcing them out of their land and giving it to you.

James 2:23

This is what the Scriptures mean by saying, “Abraham had faith in God, and God was pleased with him.” That's how Abraham became God's friend.

Joshua 1:6

Long ago I promised the ancestors of Israel that I would give this land to their descendants. So be strong and brave! Be careful to do everything my servant Moses taught you. Never stop reading The Book of the Law he gave you. Day and night you must think about what it says. If you obey it completely, you and Israel will be able to take this land.

Joshua 23:9

When you attacked powerful nations, the LORD made them run away, and no one has ever been able to stand up to you.

Joshua 24:13

You didn't have to work for this land—I gave it to you. Now you live in towns you didn't build, and you eat grapes and olives from vineyards and trees you didn't plant.

Joshua 24:3

But I brought Abraham across the River Euphrates and led him through the land of Canaan. I blessed him by giving him Isaac, the first in a line of many descendants.