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2 Chronicles 28:8

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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.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 28

Commentary

4 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 that was next to the king

on 2 Chronicles 28:7-8

Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, cuts down three men close to the throne, Maaseiah the king's son, Azrikam who governs the house, and Elkanah who stands next to the king, officials Kings never names. Verse 8 adds a further two hundred thousand captives, women, sons and daughters, taken north to Samaria along with the spoil. Chronicles alone preserves this second catastrophe of the war, setting up the confrontation the very next verse brings.

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.

Related verses

7 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.

2 Chronicles 11:4that 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 the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.5 worksDeuteronomy 28:25The 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 all the kingdoms of the earth.4 worksDeuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.4 worksActs 7:26The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’2 worksActs 13:26Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.2 works2 Chronicles 28:11Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Judges 8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.2 works

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.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 28 →

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.

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