◄ 2 Chronicles 29:9 ►
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Good News Translation
Our fathers were killed in battle, and our wives and children have been taken away as prisoners.

New Revised Standard Version
Our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Contemporary English Version
our ancestors killed in battle, but our own children and wives were taken captive.

New American Bible
For our ancestors fell by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives have been taken captive because of this.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.

our fathers

2 Chronicles 28:5-8,17 And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter. . . .

Leviticus 26:17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.

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

Context
Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
…8Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes. 9Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.10Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:5
And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.

2 Chronicles 28:17
And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great booty.

2 Chronicles 29:8
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