2 Chronicles 20:7
Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
Cross-reference
2 Chronicles 14:11 records Asa's similar prayer against a vast army, appealing to God's power to help the powerless—mirroring Jehoshaphat's reliance on God's past deliverance.
Genesis 12:7 gives the original promise to Abram of giving the land to his offspring, the foundation for the land grant recalled here.
Genesis 13:15 repeats the promise of land to Abraham's descendants forever, matching the 'give it forever' phrase in the prayer.
Genesis 17:7 establishes God's everlasting covenant with Abraham and his descendants, the very promise Jehoshaphat appeals to when mentioning the land given to Abraham's seed.
Exodus 6:7 promises 'I will take you as my own people and I will be your God,' the covenant relationship Jehoshaphat relies on when recalling God gave the land to Israel.
Exodus 19:5-7 calls Israel a treasured possession and holy nation, the same chosen status Jehoshaphat assumes as he prays about God giving them the land.
Exodus 33:2 similarly describes God driving out inhabitants before Israel, directly echoing the action recalled in Jehoshaphat's prayer.
Joshua 24:13 describes God giving Israel a land they did not labor for, directly parallel to the gift of land in Jehoshaphat's prayer.
1 Chronicles 17:21-24 has David pray about God driving out nations and making Israel His people—identical themes to Jehoshaphat's prayer about the land and Abraham.
Nehemiah 9:8 explicitly recounts the covenant to give the land of the Canaanites to Abraham's descendants, very similar wording.
Psalm 44:2 recounts God driving out nations by His hand to plant Israel, reinforcing the same historical claim of divine conquest.
Isaiah 41:8 calls Abraham 'my friend', the exact title used here, linking God's choice and friendship with Abraham.
James 2:23 explicitly calls Abraham 'friend of God,' the same title used here in Jehoshaphat's prayer.
Genesis 18:17 shows God consulting Abraham as a friend before judging Sodom, providing the background for the 'friend' title.