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2 Chronicles 29:9

World English Bible

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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2 Chronicles 29:9 in other translations

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 · American Standard Version

2 Chronicles 29:9 in context

  1. 7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
  2. 8Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
  3. 9For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
  4. 10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
  5. 11My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”