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2 Chronicles 28:10

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And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not even with you trespasses of your own against Jehovah your God?

KJV

And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 28

Commentary

8 notes on this verse
And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you,.... As seemed by taking and bringing captive such a number of them, contrary to the law, Lev 25:39. but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God? for which they deserved to be chastised as well as their brethren the men of Judah, and might expect it, and especially if they used them in a barbarous manner, and contrary to the will of God.

This site's exposition

a prophet of the LORD named Oded

on 2 Chronicles 28:9-11

A prophet named Oded meets the army before it reaches Samaria, one of the prophets Chronicles alone records, as with Shemaiah in chapter 11. He names the slaughter as sin, done “in a rage that reaches up to heaven”. Spurgeon preached on this passage in his sermon A Home Question.

This site's exposition

are you not also guilty before the LORD your God

Barnes observes that the northern tribes had left the faith more completely than Judah, which left them no ground to press harder on their brothers. Henry draws out the prophet's reasoning: if judgment has fallen on Judah, the worshipers of the calves at Bethel and Dan have more to fear.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"You are sinners, and it ill becomes sinners to be proud; you have carried the day now, but be not secure, the wheel may ere long return upon yourselves, for, if judgment begin thus with those that have the house of God among them, what shall be the end of such as worship the calves?" [2.] To their severity towards their brethren.

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

THIS WAS A HOME STROKE. When the children of Israel had bloodthirsty thoughts towards their brethren of Judah, the prophet very earnestly dissuaded them. “Why deal ye so sternly with your brethren who are in your power, simply because they have sinned. Smite them not too furiously, for are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?” How remarkably pertinent is such a question to different nations, to different sects, to different classes among men. We are too apt to look upon the sins of other nations and forget our own.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

He protested earnestly against adding this great offense of unnatural and sinful cruelty (Le 25:43, 44; Mic 2:8, 9) to the already overwhelming amount of their own national sins. Such was the effect of his spirited remonstrance and the opposing tide of popular feeling, that "the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation."
THIS WAS A HOME STROKE. When the children of Israel had bloodthirsty thoughts towards their brethren of Judah, the prophet very earnestly dissuaded them. “Why deal ye so sternly with your brethren who are in your power, simply because they have sinned. Smite them not too furiously, for are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?” How remarkably pertinent is such a question to different nations, to different sects, to different classes among men. We are too apt to look upon the sins of other nations and forget our own. Placed as we imagine ourselves to be in a pre-eminence in the midst of the peoples of the earth—we are continually criticising the acts of other tribes and nations. We look across the flood and we see that grand Republic, with the black stain of slavery upon its fair hand, and we cry out against it with all our might. We look across the channel, and we see a nation that we are continually charging with being volatile and frivolous. We cast our eyes to other peoples of the earth, and we see crimes in them, all which we very readily condemn with iron tongue. It will always be well for the pride of Great Britain if she will question herself thus.
Are there not with you ... sins against the Lord? - The ten tribes had fallen away from the true faith far more completely and more hopelessly than the two. It was not for them to press hard against their erring brothers, and aggravate their punishment.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְ֠עַתָּהand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] people of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוּדָ֤הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙and Jerusalem

    virushalimH3389 →643 times

  • אַתֶּ֣םyou

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • אֹמְרִ֔ים[are] saying

    ʾomerimH559 →5305 times

  • לִכְבֹּ֛שׁto subjugate

    likhboshH3533 →

  • לַעֲבָדִ֥יםto [male] slaves

    laavadimH5650 →799 times

  • וְלִשְׁפָח֖וֹתand to female slaves

    velishfachotH8198 →

  • לָכֶ֑םfor yourselves

    lakhem

  • הֲלֹ֤א¿ not

    halo'H3808 →5168 times

  • רַק־certainly

    rak-H7535 →109 times

  • אַתֶּם֙you

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • עִמָּכֶ֣םwith you

    ʾimakhemH5973 →1050 times

  • אֲשָׁמ֔וֹת[are] guilt<s>

    ʾashamotH819 →19 times

  • לַיהוָ֖הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃God your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 25:39–46If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.3 worksJeremiah 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’2 worksRomans 12:20–21On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”2 worksMatthew 7:2–4For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.2 works1 Peter 4:17–18For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?2 worksJudges 20:21And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 34:14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.2 worksJoshua 7:13Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.2 worksNehemiah 1:6let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 25:29

    For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword…

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 11:31

      If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

    • 1 Peter 4:17

      For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

    • Ezekiel 38:21

      And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every man’s sword will be against his brother.

    • 1 Kings 8:43

      then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear…

    • Obadiah 1:16

      For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

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About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 28 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 294: A Home Question; Charles Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 294: “A Home Question” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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