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2 Chronicles 25:8

But 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.
2 Chronicles 25:8 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”
  • BSB Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
  • NKJV But if you go, be gone! Be strong in battle! Even so, God shall make you fall before the enemy; for God has power to help and to overthrow.”
  • NASB But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, for God has the power to help and to bring down.”
  • NLT If you let them go with your troops into battle, you will be defeated by the enemy no matter how well you fight. God will overthrow you, for he has the power to help you or to trip you up.”

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Quick answer

The prophet declared that even bold action would fail without God, for He has power to help or to overthrow. Victory and defeat alike rest in God's hands.

Overview

The man of God presses the point that human effort apart from the LORD invites defeat. God's sovereignty over the outcome of battle is absolute, able to help or to cast down. This summons Amaziah, and every reader, to trust in God's power rather than in human strategy or strength.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • 2 Chr 14:11And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
  • 2 Chr 20:6And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
  • Phil 4:19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
  • Luke 18:29–30And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,
  • Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
  • Job 9:13If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
  • Deut 8:18But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
  • 1 Sam 14:6And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
  • Prov 10:22The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
  • Ps 33:16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
  • Ps 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
  • 2 Chr 18:14And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.
  • Joel 3:9–14Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
  • Judg 7:7And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
  • Ps 33:10The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
  • Isa 8:9–10Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
  • Eccl 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
  • Job 5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
  • 2 Chr 1:12Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
  • Eccl 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
  • Hag 2:8The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Ps 62:11God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
  • Matt 26:45Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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Christ at the center

Temple, priesthood, and the repeated need for a faithful king who seeks the LORD all point past every imperfect reign to the King and Temple who finally and fully dwell with God's people.

How 2 Chronicles 25:8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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