2-Chronicles - 29:9



9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 29:9.

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

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For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, 2-Chronicles 28:5.
and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this; for this idolatry; or they were, though afterwards dismissed, 2-Chronicles 28:8 and some of them were still in captivity, perhaps such as were carried captive by the Edomites, 2-Chronicles 28:17.

Captivity - Tho' they were presently released, 2-Chronicles 28:5, 2-Chronicles 28:14-15.

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