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They said, ‘If trouble comes to us—the sword, punishment, sicknesses, or famine—we will stand in front of this Temple and in front of you. Your name is on this Temple. We will shout to you when we are in trouble. Then you will hear and save us.’

10 “But now, here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir. You would not let the Israelites enter their lands when they came out of Egypt.[a] So the Israelites turned away and didn’t destroy them. 11 But see the kind of reward those people give us for not destroying them. They have come to force us out of your land that you gave to us.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 20:10 You would not let … Egypt See Deut. 2:4-9, 19.

‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine,(A) we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’

10 “But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt;(B) so they turned away from them and did not destroy them. 11 See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession(C) you gave us as an inheritance.

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