8They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying,


In Context

5 Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple of the Lord in the front of the new courtyard

6 and said: "O Lord , God of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.

7 O our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

8 They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying,

9 'If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.'

10 "But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.

2nd Chronicles 20:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:8And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name, saying:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:8And they have dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:8And they dwelt in it, and have built thee a sanctuary in it for thy name, saying,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:8They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:8and they dwell in it, and build to Thee in it a sanctuary for Thy name, saying,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:8And they dwelled therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying,