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look,וְהִנֵּהtheyהֵםare repayingגֹּמְלִיםusעָלֵינוּby comingלָבוֹאto drive us outלְגָרְשֵׁנוּof your possessionמִיְּרֻשָּׁתְךָthatאֲשֶׁרyou gave us to possess.הוֹרַשְׁתָּנוּ
2 Chronicles 20:11
Study it in the app“look, they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us to possess.”
Facing a huge army, Jehoshaphat prays: our eyes are on youPrayerSurrounded by enemies, King Jehoshaphat admits he does not know what to do and looks to GodGod guides
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Chronicles 20:11, word by word
- are repayingגֹּמְלִיםgomlim
repay
To treat someone as they deserve.
Where else “gomlim” appears- by comingבוֹאvo
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “vo” appears- to drive us outגָרְשֵׁgarshe
drive out
To force someone out of their home or land.
Where else “garshe” appears- of your possessionיְּרֻשָּׁתְyerushat
possession
Possession: land that is taken and becomes one's own; also what is received from one's fathers.
Where else “yerushat” appears- you gave us to possessהוֹרַשְׁתָּhorashta
possess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “horashta” appears
The context
10And now, look, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, among whom you did not let Israel come when they came from the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them and did not destroy them
11 · This verse (above)
12Our Elohim, will you not judge them? For there is no power in us before this great multitude that is coming against us, and we do not know what to do, but on you are our eyes.”