Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. Treasury of Scripture how they reward us Six of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. and {raah}, `evil:' `Behold they reward us {evil.}' which is also the reading of the Targum. Genesis 44:4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men... Psalm 7:4 If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:) Psalm 35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. Proverbs 17:13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dig a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them... to cast us Judges 11:23,24 So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it... Psalm 83:3-12 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones...
Context Jehoshaphat's Prayer
5And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, 6And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? and rule not you over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand you? 7Are not you our God, who did drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham your friend for ever? 8And they dwelled therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying, 9If, when evil comes on us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in your presence, (for your name is in this house,) and cry to you in our affliction, then you will hear and help. 10And 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 from them, and destroyed them not; 11Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are on you. 13And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.
Darby Bible Translation
behold, they reward us, in coming to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to possess.
King James Bible
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Young's Literal Translation
and lo, they are recompensing to us -- to come in to drive us out of Thy possession, that Thou hast caused us to possess.
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