2-Chronicles - 21:14



14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 21:14.

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Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.
behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,
lo, Jehovah is smiting, a great smiting, among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods,
Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:
behold, the Lord will strike you with a great plague, with all your people, and your sons and wives, and all your substance.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The fulfillment of the threat is given in 2-Chronicles 21:16-17.

Will the Lord smite - "The Word of the Lord will send a great mortality." - Targum.

Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people,.... They going into the same idolatry with himself willingly, at least great part of them, and therefore deserved to be smitten, and which would be a punishment to him:
and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods; which should be carried captive, as the event shows.

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