1 Chronicles 5:20

God gave them victory because they cried out to him and trusted in him during the battle. It teaches that triumph came through faith and prayer, not mere strength.

Cross-references · 22

• Ps 22:4–5Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
• Ps 9:10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
• 2 Chr 18:31When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
• Ps 20:7–8Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
• Josh 10:14There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
• Josh 10:42Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
• Nah 1:7Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
• 1 Chr 5:22For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
• Ps 146:5–6Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
• 1 Kgs 8:44–45“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
• Jer 17:7–8“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
• 1 Kgs 22:32When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they turned aside to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.
• Ps 84:11–12For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• 1 Sam 19:15Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
• 2 Chr 32:20–21Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
• Exod 17:11When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
• 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
• Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
• 2 Chr 20:12Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
• 2 Chr 14:10–13Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
• Ps 46:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• 2 Chr 13:13–15But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

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