2 Chronicles 20:4

To ask. — Literally, to seek (baqqçsh, a synonym of dârash. 2 Chronicles 20:2) from Jehovah; scil., help, which Authorised Version rightly supplies.

Even out of all the cities of Judah. — Emphasising the fact that the gathering in the Temple represented the whole nation. Syriac and Arabic, “and even from the distant cities.”