Ahead of Tuesday’s pivotal meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump as they discuss the future of the Jewish state’s conflict with Hamas, a group of evangelical leaders met with the Israeli leader to pray for and encourage him.

The meeting was held on Monday evening at the historic Blair House in Washington, D.C., a presidential guest house where Netanyahu and his wife Sara are staying. Former Arkansas Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, President Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, attended the event along with other evangelical leaders including Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and Christians United for Israel leader Pastor John Hagee.

“I was honored to join a group of evangelical leaders for a meeting with Prime Minister @Netanyahu at the Blair House last evening to encourage him ahead of his various meetings this week,” Perkins wrote Tuesday morning on X. “Join me in praying for his meeting with President Trump today — that God would give both of these men divine wisdom as they discuss critical matters facing Israel and the Middle East.”

Monday’s meeting was the second time the Israeli PM has met with American evangelical leaders in recent months. Last July, ahead of his speech to a joint session of Congress, Netanyahu met with over two dozen leaders in Washington. “We have no better friends than you,” he remarked, “and I don’t say that lightly or haphazardly. It comes from the heart.”

As sharers of a common sacred scripture, Perkins has described American evangelicals as among the Jewish people’s staunchest international allies. “I think Israel and the Jewish people have no greater supporter, ally, and friend than evangelical, Bible-believing Christians in this country,” he noted in July.

The meeting came before Netanyahu and Trump are scheduled to meet on Tuesday about an array of challenges facing Israel, including a possible second phase of the ceasefire deal between the Jewish state and the terrorist group Hamas. Since the first phase of the ceasefire deal was agreed to last month, which was largely orchestrated by the Trump administration, 18 hostages have been released, and 20 more are scheduled for release before the first phase ends.

Another major topic of the meeting will be the future of Gaza. According to reports, Trump is “extremely focused” on removing Hamas from power in Gaza and thinks that it is “impractical to rebuild the region” any time soon and would be “inhumane to force people to live on land filled with unexploded ordnance and rubble.” The president has also suggested that Palestinian civilians be temporarily moved to Egypt and Jordan, which the leaders of both Arab nations have expressed opposition to.