2 CHRONICLES 20:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?”
The opening of Jehoshaphat's prayer — invocation of divine sovereignty — 'O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? Do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you' (ויאמר יהוה אלהי אבותינו הלא אתה הוא אלהים בשמים ואתה משל בכל ממלכות הגויים ובידך כח וגבורה ואין עתך להתיצב). The invocation 'God of our fathers' (אלהי אבותינו) grounds the prayer in patriarchal covenant; it invokes continuity from Abraham through the monarchical period. The rhetorical questions — Is God not in heaven? Does God not rule the nations? — assert theological axioms from which supplication proceeds. The catalog of divine attributes (power, might) emphasizes that deliverance depends not on military might but on the sovereign will of the One who created and rules all kingdoms. This is covenantal theology in extremity.
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