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2 Chronicles 20:11

New International Reader's Version

See how they are paying us back. They are coming to drive us out. They want to take over the land you gave us as our share.

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The Lord appeared to Abram at Shechem. He said, “I will give this land to your family who comes after you.” So Abram built an altar there to honor the Lord, who had appeared to him.

They hadn’t gone very far from the city when Joseph spoke to his manager. “Go after those men right away,” he said. “Catch up with them. Say to them, ‘My master was good to you. Why have you paid him back by doing evil?

Our God, won’t you please judge them? We don’t have the power to face this huge army that’s attacking us. We don’t know what to do. But we’re looking to you to help us.”

They pay me back with evil, even though I was good to them. They leave me like someone who has lost a family member.

Or I have done evil to my friend. Or I have robbed my enemy without any reason.

Evil will never leave the house of anyone who pays back evil for good.

Should the good things I’ve done be paid back with evil? But my enemies have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood in front of you and spoke up for them. I tried to turn your anger away from them.

The Lord says, “The people of Edom have sinned again and again. So I will judge them. They chased Israel with swords that were ready to strike them down. They killed the women of the land. They were angry all the time. Their anger was like a fire that blazed out. It could not be stopped.

He drove out nations to make room for you. They were greater and stronger than you are. He will bring you into their land. He wants to give it to you as your very own. The whole land is as good as yours right now.

Be strong and brave. You will lead these people. They will take the land as their very own. It is the land I promised to give their people of long ago.




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