THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
Following these statements, the entire crowd raised their voices in supplication to God, while the wives lifted up prayers accompanied by weeping and tears.
2 Chronicles 20:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and their wives, and their children.
וְכָ֨ל־יְהוּדָ֔ה עֹמְדִ֖ים לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה גַּם־טַפָּ֖ם נְשֵׁיהֶ֥ם וּבְנֵיהֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jonah 3:5And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.
- Ezra 10:1Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people wept with much lamentation.
- Acts 21:5And the days being expired, departing we went forward, they all bringing us on our way, with their wives and children, till we were out of the city. And we kneeled down on the shore: and we prayed.
- Deut 29:10You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,