8Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow."


In Context

5 Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men ready for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.

6 He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

7 But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the Lord is not with Israel-not with any of the people of Ephraim.

8 Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow."

9 Amaziah asked the man of God, "But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?" The man of God replied, "The Lord can give you much more than that."

10 So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage.

2nd Chronicles 25:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:8But if thou wilt go, do [it,] be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:8And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the army, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it belongeth to God both to help, and to put to flight.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:8But if thou wilt go, do valiantly , be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:8But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy, for there is with God power to help and to cast down.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:8But if thou wilt go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God shall cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:8But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:8But if you will go, take action, be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:8but if thou art going — do it, be strong for battle, God doth cause thee to stumble before an enemy, for there is power in God to help, and to cause to stumble.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:8But if you will go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make you fall before the enemy: for God has power to help, and to cast down.