2 Chronicles 20:8,9

Have built thee a sanctuary He does not mention this under an idea that they had merited any thing at God's hand by building it, for only of his own they had given him; but considers it as such a token of God's favourable presence with them, as had encouraged them to hope he would hear and help them, when in their distress they cried to him before that house. If when evil cometh upon us, the sword, judgment Or rather, the sword of judgment, or of vengeance, that is, war, whereby thou judgest and punishest thy people for their sins.