2 Chronicles 29:9
in 2 Chronicles 29For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
KJV
For, lo, 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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This verse in 2 Chronicles 29
Commentary
4 notes on this verseFor, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, 2Ch 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, 2Ch 28:8 and some of them were still in captivity, perhaps such as were carried captive by the Edomites, 2Ch 28:17.
This site's exposition
an object of terror, horror, and mockery
on 2 Chronicles 29:8-9
The wrath and the “terror, horror, and mockery” name what the chapter before already showed, 120,000 slain and 200,000 carried captive at 28:6-8. Hezekiah binds the neglected temple and the national disaster together as cause and effect. He names “our sons and daughters and wives” still “in captivity”.
This site's exposition
our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity
Gill notes that the captives at 28:8 had been sent home, so the families held abroad were probably those the Edomites carried off at 28:17. Matthew Henry takes Hezekiah's words as a model for a nation under trouble, which should ask first whether the worship of God has been neglected.
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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
This was the cause of all the calamities they had lain under. God had in anger delivered them to trouble, to the sword, and to captivity. When we are under the rebukes of God's providence it is good for us to enquire whether we have not neglected God's ordinances and whether the controversy he has with us may not be traced to this neglect.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִנֵּ֛ה | vehineh | and there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| נָפְל֥וּ | nafelu | they have fallen | H5307 → | 435 times |
| אֲבוֹתֵ֖ינוּ | ʾavoteinu | fathers our | H1 → | 1212 times |
| בֶּחָ֑רֶב | becharev | by the sword | H2719 → | 413 times |
| וּבָנֵ֨ינוּ | uvaneinu | and sons our | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וּבְנוֹתֵ֧ינוּ | uvenoteinu | and daughters our | H1323 → | 588 times |
| וְנָשֵׁ֛ינוּ | venasheinu | and wives our | H802 → | 781 times |
| בַּשְּׁבִ֖י | bashevi | [are] in <the> captivity | H7628 → | 49 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| זֹֽאת׃ | zot | this | H2063 → | 603 times |
וְהִנֵּ֛הand there!
vehinehH2009 →843 times
נָפְל֥וּthey have fallen
nafeluH5307 →435 times
אֲבוֹתֵ֖ינוּfathers our
ʾavoteinuH1 →1212 times
בֶּחָ֑רֶבby the sword
becharevH2719 →413 times
וּבָנֵ֨ינוּand sons our
uvaneinuH1121 →4930 times
וּבְנוֹתֵ֧ינוּand daughters our
uvenoteinuH1323 →588 times
וְנָשֵׁ֛ינוּand wives our
venasheinuH802 →781 times
בַּשְּׁבִ֖י[are] in <the> captivity
basheviH7628 →49 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
זֹֽאת׃this
zotH2063 →603 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Lamentations 5:7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 16:12
And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 31:29
“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
- Ezekiel 18:2
“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
- Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
- Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
- Jeremiah 16:12
Through
Leviticus 26:17And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
it leads to
- Leviticus 17:10
If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 26:36–37
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to…
- Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
- Leviticus 17:10
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.