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


In Context

5 Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Yahweh, before the new court;

6 and he said, |Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in heaven? Aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

7 Didn't you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?

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

9 If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.'

10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;

2 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

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