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 for this.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

8Thus hath it come to pass, that, the wrath of Yahweh, hath been upon Judah and Jerusalem,—and he hath delivered them up as a terror and as an astonishment and as hissing, even as, ye, can see with your own eyes.

10Now, is it near my heart, to solemnise a covenant unto Yahweh, God of Israel,—that he may turn from him the glow of his anger.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5Wherefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria, who smote him, and carried away captive from him a large body of captives, and brought them into Damascus,—yea, even into the hand of the king of Israel, was he delivered, who smote him with a great smiting.

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

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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