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2 Chronicles 28:9

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But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up unto heaven.

KJV

But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the Lord God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.

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Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Nothing more is known of this Oded. Compare 2Ch 15:1. He went out before the host - Rather, “He went out to meet the host,” as the same phrase is translated in 2Ch 15:2. A rage that reacheth up to heaven - i. e. not merely an exceedingly great and violent rage, but one that has displeased God.

This site's exposition

whose name was Oded

on 2 Chronicles 28:9-11

A prophet named Oded meets the returning army before it reaches Samaria, the Chronicles-only prophet confrontation this thread has carried since Shemaiah in chapter 11. He names the victory itself as sin, a rage that reaches up to heaven, and turns the argument on the victors: are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God. Spurgeon preached this verse as a rebuke to any nation quick to judge another's sin while carrying its own, and Oded's demand is blunt, deliver the captives again, before the fierce wrath of the Lord falls a second time.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

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."

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

But a prophet of the Lord - whose name was Oded - To this beautiful speech nothing can be added by the best comment; it is simple, humane, pious, and overwhelmingly convincing: no wonder it produced the effect mentioned here. That there was much of humanity in the heads of the children of Ephraim who joined with the prophet on this occasion, the fifteenth verse sufficiently proves. They did not barely dismiss these most unfortunate captives, but they took that very spoil which their victorious army had brought away; and they clothed, fed, shod, and anointed, these distressed people, set the feeblest of them upon asses, and escorted them safely to Jericho. We can scarcely find a parallel to this in the universal history of the wars which savage man has carried on against his fellows, from the foundation of the world.

The words behind it

28 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.

  • וְ֠שָׁםand there

    veshomH8033 →834 times

  • הָיָ֨הhe was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • נָבִ֥יאa prophet

    navi'H5030 →314 times

  • לַֽיהוָה֮of Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עֹדֵ֣ד[was] Oded

    ʾodedH5752 →3 times

  • שְׁמוֹ֒name his

    shemoH8034 →864 times

  • וַיֵּצֵ֗אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • לִפְנֵ֤י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַצָּבָא֙the army

    hatzava'H6635 →485 times

  • הַבָּ֣אwhich was coming

    haba'H935 →2568 times

  • לְשֹׁמְר֔וֹןto Samaria

    leshomeronH8111 →109 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • לָהֶ֗םto them

    lahem

  • הִ֠נֵּהhere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • בַּחֲמַ֨תin [the] wrath of

    bachamatH2534 →125 times

  • יְהוָ֧הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵֽי־[the] God of

    ʾelohei-H430 →2601 times

  • אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֛םancestors your

    ʾavoteikhemH1 →1212 times

  • עַל־towards

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • נְתָנָ֣םhe gave them

    netanamH5414 →2011 times

  • בְּיֶדְכֶ֑םin hand your

    beyedkhemH3027 →1618 times

  • וַתַּֽהַרְגוּ־and you have killed

    vatahargu-H2026 →167 times

  • בָ֣םamong them

    vam

  • בְזַ֔עַףin a rage

    vezaafH2197 →

  • עַ֥ד[which] to

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • לַשָּׁמַ֖יִםto the heavens

    lashamayimH8064 →421 times

  • הִגִּֽיעַ׃it has reached

    higia'H5060 →150 times

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

Related verses

18 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.

Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.9 worksRevelation 18:5For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.6 worksEzra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.6 worksPsalms 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.4 worksZechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’3 worksExodus 3:15God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 10:5–7Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.2 works1 Kings 20:13Meanwhile a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do you see this entire great army? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this very day, and you will know that I am the LORD.’”2 works2 Chronicles 25:15–16Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”2 worksGenesis 4:10“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.2 worksGenesis 11:4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”2 works2 Kings 20:14–15Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”2 worksEzekiel 25:12–17This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,2 worksEzekiel 26:2–3“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’2 worksObadiah 1:10–16Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.2 worksJeremiah 15:17–18I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.2 works2 Chronicles 19:1–2When Jehoshaphat king of Judah had returned safely to his home in Jerusalem,2 works1 Kings 20:42And the prophet said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, your life will be exchanged for his life, and your people for his people.’”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

    Ezra 9:6

    and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 18:5

      For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

    • Psalms 38:4

      For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

  • Through

    Revelation 18:5

    For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 18:20–21

      Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

    • Ezra 9:6

      and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

    • Jeremiah 51:9

      “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

    • Revelation 16:19

      The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His…

  • Through

    Isaiah 47:6

    I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

    it leads to

    • Zechariah 1:15

      but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’

    • Deuteronomy 28:50

      a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

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

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