2 Chronicles 29:9

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

In Context

8Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5Wherefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

Lamentations 5:7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 29:2-12

Hezekiah's Good Reign. ( b. c. 726.) 1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that David his father had done. 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord , and repaired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together… Read the whole commentary →

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