2 Chronicles 20:9 (YLT)

Passage

If evil doth come upon us--sword, judgment, and pestilence, and famine--we stand before this house, and before Thee, for Thy name <FI>is<Fi> in this house, and cry unto Thee out of our distress, and Thou dost hear and save.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 20:7 `Art not Thou our God? Thou hast dispossessed the inhabitants of this land from before Thy people Israel, and dost give it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend to the age,

2 Chronicles 20:8 and they dwell in it, and build to Thee in it a sanctuary for Thy name, saying,

2 Chronicles 20:9 If evil doth come upon us--sword, judgment, and pestilence, and famine--we stand before this house, and before Thee, for Thy name <FI>is<Fi> in this house, and cry unto Thee out of our distress, and Thou dost hear and save.

2 Chronicles 20:10 `And now, lo, sons of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, whom Thou didst not grant to Israel to go in against in their coming out of the land of Egypt, for they turned aside from off them and destroyed them not,

2 Chronicles 20:11 and lo, they are recompensing to us--to come in to drive us out of Thy possession, that Thou hast caused us to possess.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "evil", "doth", "come", "upon", "us--sword", "judgment", "pestilence", and "famine--we". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "evil" and "doth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "and they dwell in it and build..." into verse 10's "And now lo sons of Ammon and...", so "evil" and "doth" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "evil" and "doth" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.