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.
2 Chronicles 29:9 in other translations
| BSB | For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity. |
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| WEB | For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. |
| ASV | For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. |
| YLT | And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives are in captivity for this. |
| DARBY | And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. |
| BBE | For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this. |
| Webster | For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. |
What does 2 Chronicles 29:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 29:8-9
8-9. Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem--This pious king had the discernment to ascribe all the national calamities that had befallen the kingdom to the true cause, namely, apostasy from God. The country had been laid waste by successive wars of invasion, and its resources drained. Many families mourned members of their household still suffering the miseries of foreign captivity; all their…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 29:1-19
When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. There are still such neglects, if the word be not duly read and opened, for that was signified by the lighting the lamps, and also if prayers and praise be not…
2 Chronicles 29:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 29:9
- 2 Chronicles 28:17
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
- 2 Chronicles 28:5-8
Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them 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. For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king. And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
- Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- Leviticus 26:17
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 29:8
Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 29:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y he aquí nuestros padres han caído á cuchillo, nuestros hijos y nuestras hijas y nuestras mujeres son cautivas por esto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et voici, à cause de cela, nos pères sont tombés par l’épée, et nos fils, et nos filles, et nos femmes, sont en captivité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und siehe, deswegen sind unsere Väter durch das Schwert gefallen, und unsere Söhne und unsere Töchter und unsere Weiber sind in Gefangenschaft. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | En corruerunt patres nostri gladiis: filii nostri, et filiæ nostræ, et conjuges captivæ ductæ sunt propter hoc scelus. |