2 Chronicles 29:9

And, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.

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In The King James Version

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 the Lord is upon Judah and Jerusalem. and he hath rendered them to be a horror, an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5Wherefore the Lord his God gave him up into the hand of the king of Syria; and they defeated his people, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And also into the hand of the king of Israel was he given up, and he defeated his people with a great slaughter.

Lamentations 5:7Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear 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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