2 Chronicles 20:13
New International Version
All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the LORD.

New Living Translation
As all the men of Judah stood before the LORD with their little ones, wives, and children,

English Standard Version
Meanwhile all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Berean Standard Bible
Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.

King James Bible
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

New King James Version
Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives, and their children.

NASB 1995
All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children.

NASB 1977
And all Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives, and their children.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now all Judah was standing before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Amplified Bible
So all Judah stood before the LORD, with their infants, their wives, and their children.

Christian Standard Bible
All Judah was standing before the LORD with their dependents, their wives, and their children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All Judah was standing before the LORD with their infants, their wives, and their children.

American Standard Version
And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all of the house of Yehuda were standing before LORD JEHOVAH, also their little ones, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And all Juda was standing before the Lord, and their children, and their wives.

Contemporary English Version
While every man, woman, and child of Judah was standing there at the temple,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and their wives, and their children.

English Revised Version
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All the people from Judah, their infants, wives, and children were standing in front of the LORD.

Good News Translation
All the men of Judah, with their wives and children, were standing there at the Temple.

International Standard Version
All of Judah was standing in the LORD's presence, along with their little babies, their wives, and their children.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Literal Standard Version
And all Judah is standing before YHWH, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.

Majority Standard Bible
Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.

New American Bible
All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

NET Bible
All the men of Judah were standing before the LORD, along with their infants, wives, and children.

New Revised Standard Version
Meanwhile all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

New Heart English Bible
All Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

World English Bible
All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Young's Literal Translation
And all Judah are standing before Jehovah, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jehoshaphat's Prayer
12Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.” 13Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.

Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:12
Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You."

2 Chronicles 20:14
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite from Asaph's descendants, as he stood in the midst of the assembly.


Treasury of Scripture

And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

all Judah

Deuteronomy 29:10
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

Ezra 10:1
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

Jonah 3:5
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

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2 Chronicles 20
1. Jehoshaphat, invaded by Moab, proclaims a fast
5. His prayer
14. The prophecy of Jahaziel
20. Jehoshaphat exhorts the people, and sets singers to praise the Lord
22. The great overthrow of his enemies
26. The people, having blessed God at Berachah, return in triumph
31. Jehoshaphat's reign
35. His convoy of ships, according to the prophecy of Eliezer, unhappily perishes.














(13) Stood.--Were standing.

Before the Lord--i.e., praying with their king. (Comp. the apparent reference to this assembly in Psalm 48:9. "We thought upon Thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of Thy Temple."

Verse 13. - If the whole narration called for one more touch, it has it in the pathetic, Brief, telling graphicness of this verse. Their little ones. The familiar Hebrew word (טַפָם) is expressive of the quick, tripping step of the young and of women. Gesenius would regard it in this passage as designating the whole family as distinguished from the head of it, and as amplified by "wives" and "children" instanced afterward, quoting the very insufficient support of Genesis 47:12. Our text occurs again in 2 Chronicles 31:18.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Meanwhile all [the men]
וְכָ֨ל־ (wə·ḵōl-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of Judah,
יְהוּדָ֔ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

with
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

their wives
נְשֵׁיהֶ֥ם (nə·šê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and children
וּבְנֵיהֶֽם׃ (ū·ḇə·nê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and little ones,
טַפָּ֖ם (ṭap·pām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2945: A family

were standing
עֹמְדִ֖ים (‘ō·mə·ḏîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

before
לִפְנֵ֣י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the LORD.
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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