2 Chronicles 20:6-12 - Exposition

The recorded prayers of Scripture are indeed what they might be expected to be, model prayers, and the present a model instance of the same (see homiletics). The prayer before us invokes the one God "in heaven;" claims him the God "of our fathers;" recites his universal authority above, below; pleads his former conduct of the "people Israel," in especial his stablishing of that people in their present land; most touchingly recalls his covenant of condescending, everlasting "friendship" with Abraham, the grand original of the people ( Genesis 18:17-19 , Genesis 18:33 ; Genesis 17:2 ; Exodus 33:11 ); makes mention of the consecration of the land by the sanctuary, and in particular of the very service of consecration and the special foreseeing provision in that service for a crisis like the present ( 1 Kings 8:33-45 ; 2 Chronicles 6:24-35 ; 2 Chronicles 7:1 ); and then ( 2 Chronicles 20:10 , 2 Chronicles 20:11 ) states pointedly the case and complaint with its aggravations ( Deuteronomy 2:4 , Deuteronomy 2:8 , Deuteronomy 2:9 , Deuteronomy 2:19 ; Numbers 20:21 ; 11:18 ), and with a parting appeal, confession of their own weakness, ignorance, and dependence unfeigned, commits the cause of the alarmed people to God. Our eyes are upon thee. So, with a multitude of other passages, that supreme pattern one, Psalms 123:2 .