Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
This cry belongs to Jehoshaphat's prayer offered in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem. The invaders named in it are Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, nations Israel had been forbidden by God to invade when coming out of Egypt, and whom Israel had therefore spared. Those same nations were now repaying that forbearance by coming to cast Judah out of the possession God had given His people to inherit.
Their assault aimed to drive the people from the land of their inheritance, threatening the continued remembrance of Israel as a nation. It was opposition to God as well as to His people. Against the great multitude coming upon it, Judah had no might and did not know what to do. In that helplessness Judah confessed that God rules over the kingdoms of the heathen with power and might that none can withstand, fixed its eyes upon Him, and asked Him to judge its enemies.
God is the strength of His people today in the same kind of emergency. They are therefore not to trust in princes nor to put fallible human beings in the place of God. They are to look to Him as their strong tower of defense, who has all power with limitless resources and whose battle it is, not dwelling on supposed impossibilities. Apparent impossibilities then make the victory all the greater.
This cry belongs to Jehoshaphat's prayer offered in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem. The invaders named in it are Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, nations Israel had been forbidden by God to invade when coming out of Egypt, and whom Israel had therefore spared. Those same nations were now repaying that forbearance by coming to cast Judah out of the possession God had given His people to inherit.
Their assault aimed to drive the people from the land of their inheritance, threatening the continued remembrance of Israel as a nation. It was opposition to God as well as to His people. Against the great multitude coming upon it, Judah had no might and did not know what to do. In that helplessness Judah confessed that God rules over the kingdoms of the heathen with power and might that none can withstand, fixed its eyes upon Him, and asked Him to judge its enemies.
God is the strength of His people today in the same kind of emergency. They are therefore not to trust in princes nor to put fallible human beings in the place of God. They are to look to Him as their strong tower of defense, who has all power with limitless resources and whose battle it is, not dwelling on supposed impossibilities. Apparent impossibilities then make the victory all the greater.