2 Chronicles 14:9-12

14:9 Zerah the Cushite marched against them with an army of 1,000,000 ¹  men and 300 chariots. He arrived at Mareshah, 14:10 and Asa went out to oppose him. They deployed for battle in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

14:11 Asa prayed ²  to the Lord his God: “O Lord, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. ³  Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. ⁴  O Lord our God, don’t let men prevail against you!” ⁵  14:12 The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

2 Chronicles 18:31

18:31 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The Lord helped him; God lured them away from him.

2 Chronicles 20:6-13

20:6 He prayed: “O Lord God of our ancestors, ⁶  you are the God who lives in heaven ⁷  and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you. 20:7 Our God, you drove out ⁸  the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession ⁹  to the descendants of your friend ¹⁰  Abraham. 20:8 They settled down in it and built in it a temple ¹¹  to honor you, ¹²  saying, 20:9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, ¹³  judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. ¹⁴  We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will ¹⁵  hear and deliver us.’ 20:10 Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! ¹⁶  When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. ¹⁷  They bypassed them and did not destroy them. 20:11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us! 20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.” ¹⁸ 

20:13 All the men of Judah ¹⁹  were standing before the Lord, along with their infants, wives, and children.

2 Chronicles 32:20-21

32:20 King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven. 32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ²⁰  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ²¹  returned home humiliated. ²²  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ²³  struck him down with the sword.

[14:9]  ¹ tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”

[14:11]  ² tn Heb “called out.”

[14:11]  ³ tn Heb “there is not with you to help between many with regard to [the one] without strength.”

[14:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and in your name we have come against this multitude.”

[14:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “let not man retain [strength] with you.”

[20:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 33).

[20:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “are you not God in heaven?” The rhetorical question expects the answer “yes,” resulting in the positive statement “you are the God who lives in heaven” employed in the translation.

[20:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “did you not drive out?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.

[20:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “permanently.”

[20:7]  ¹⁰ tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

[20:8]  ¹¹ tn Or “sanctuary.”

[20:8]  ¹² tn Heb “for your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “to honor you”).

[20:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “sword.”

[20:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “for your name is in this house.” The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name. In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[20:9]  ¹⁵ tn Or “so that you may.”

[20:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “now, look, the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir.”

[20:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “whom you did not allow Israel to enter when they came from the land of Egypt.”

[20:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “for [or “indeed”] upon you are our eyes.”

[20:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.

[32:21]  ²⁰ tn Or “an angel.”

[32:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:21]  ²² tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

[32:21]  ²³ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”