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2 Chronicles 28:8

in 2 Chronicles 28

Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 28

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They had indeed shed the blood of war in war; we suppose that to be lawful, but it turned into sin to them, because they did it from a bad principle of enmity to their brethren and after a bad manner, with a barbarous fury, a rage reaching up to heaven, that is, that cried to God for vengeance against such bloody men, that delighted in military execution.

This site's exposition

Elkanah the second to the king

on 2 Chronicles 28:7-8

Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, kills three men close to the throne, officials Kings never names. Verse 8 adds 200,000 captives, women, sons and daughters, taken to Samaria with the plunder. Chronicles alone preserves this second catastrophe of the war, which sets up the confrontation of verse 9.

This site's exposition

brought it to Samaria

The captives are kinsmen, and the law forbade an Israelite to rule a brother Israelite harshly as a slave in Leviticus 25:39-46. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown cite that law and Micah 2:8-9 against the army's plan. Matthew Henry faults the fury and hatred toward brothers with which this army fought.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the children of Israel carried captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, sons and daughters,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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."

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁבּוּ֩and they took captive

    vaiyishbuH7617 →47 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֨לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • מֵֽאֲחֵיהֶ֜םof relatives their

    meacheihemH251 →630 times

  • מָאתַ֣יִםtwo hundred

    matayimH3967 →581 times

  • אֶ֗לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • נָשִׁים֙women

    nashimH802 →781 times

  • בָּנִ֣יםsons

    banimH1121 →4930 times

  • וּבָנ֔וֹתand daughters

    uvanotH1323 →588 times

  • וְגַם־and also

    vegam-H1571 →769 times

  • שָׁלָ֥לbooty

    shalalH7998 →73 times

  • רָ֖בmuch

    ravH7227 →454 times

  • בָּזְז֣וּthey plundered

    bazezuH962 →43 times

  • מֵהֶ֑םfrom them

    mehem

  • וַיָּבִ֥יאוּand they brought

    vaiyaviuH935 →2568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַשָּׁלָ֖לthe booty

    hashalalH7998 →73 times

  • לְשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃ סto Samaria

    leshomeronH8111 →109 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Acts 13:26

    Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

    it leads to

    • Romans 1:16

      I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

    • Luke 1:77

      to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

    • Ephesians 1:13

      And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

    • Colossians 1:5

      the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel

    • Isaiah 46:13

      I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 28:25

    The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 23:46

      This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.

    • Isaiah 30:17

      A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 11:4

    that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they listened to…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:20

      As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Where this verse is studied

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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.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.