20:72 Chronicles 20:7

Art not thou our God means that God drove out the inhabitants of the land before His people Israel and gave it to the seed of Abraham His friend for ever as a lasting possession.4SP 498.6+3 The Canaan so given was the setting for the sanctuary, not itself the sanctuary, for Israel dwelt in the land and built there a sanctuary for God's name.4SP 498.6+1 That sanctuary built in the land was God's dwelling place and the earthly center of His glory.4SP 498.6 It was a distinct dwelling place for God's presence, as commanded that He might dwell among His people in Exodus 25:8.GC88 683.4–684.5 The later temple at Jerusalem contained the holy and most holy places and the vessels brought from the movable sanctuary built in the wilderness.4SP 498.6

The verse identifies Abraham as God's friend.PK 199.2–3+1 His life as God's friend was marked by prayer and worship, for wherever he camped he built an altar and offered morning and evening sacrifices, and the altar that remained after he moved showed Canaanites who came upon it that he had worshiped the living God.7T 44.2 Jehoshaphat appealed to God's past deliverance and covenant gift as the basis of his prayer, presenting them as grounds for Judah to trust God and seek His help when threatened by enemies.PK 200.1+1

The verse reveals God's merciful and tender-hearted ways toward His people, which His workers are expected to reflect by being tender-hearted.SPBC 181.1+2 It gives the rule for God's workers to be tender-hearted instead of grasping high wages for themselves and wresting every advantage from their brethren in the name of the cause.Lt 55, 1895, par. 32–34 God's workers must reflect His ways by dealing without partiality and without ruling, oppressing, or exercising dominion over brethren, but by manifesting impartial judgment, sympathy, and the spirit of Christ, since position makes no one greater before God and all are brethren valued only by character.Lt 54, 1895, par. 22–24