2 Chronicles 20:7-9

Complete Jewish Bible

⁷ You, our God, drove out those living in the land ahead of your people Isra’el and gave it forever to the descendants of Avraham your friend. ⁸ They lived in it, built you a sanctuary in it for your name, and said, ⁹ ‘If calamity strikes us, such as war, judgment, disease or famine, we will stand before this house — that is, before you, since your name is in this house — and cry to you in our distress; and you will hear us and rescue us.’