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Contemporary English Version

2 Chronicles 29:9

our ancestors killed in battle, but our own children and wives were taken captive.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Priest;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Forsaking;   Israel/jews;   Turning;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Levite;   Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hezekiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Our fathers fell by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
Hebrew Names Version
For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
King James Version
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
English Standard Version
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
New Century Version
That is why our ancestors were killed in battle and our sons, daughters, and wives were taken captive.
New English Translation
Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.
Amplified Bible
"For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity because of this.
New American Standard Bible
"For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
World English Bible
For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For lo, our fathers are fallen by the sword, and our sonnes, and our daughters, and our wiues are in captiuitie for the same cause.
Legacy Standard Bible
And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Berean Standard Bible
For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
Complete Jewish Bible
Here, our ancestors have fallen by the sword; and on this account our sons, daughters and wives have gone into captivity.
Darby Translation
And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Easy-to-Read Version
That is why our ancestors were killed in battle. Our sons, daughters, and wives were made prisoners.
George Lamsa Translation
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Good News Translation
Our fathers were killed in battle, and our wives and children have been taken away as prisoners.
Lexham English Bible
Now behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity on account of this.
Literal Translation
For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in exile for this.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For beholde, euen for the same cause fell oure fathers thorow the swerde, oure sonnes doughters and wyues were caryed awaye captyue.
American Standard Version
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Bible in Basic English
For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For loe, our fathers were ouerthrowen with the sword, and our sonnes, our daughters, and our wyues were caried away captiue for the same cause.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
King James Version (1611)
For loe, our fathers haue fallen by the sword, and our sonnes and our daughters, and our wiues, are in captiuitie for this.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And, behold, your fathers have been smitten with the sword, and your sons and your daughters and your wives are in captivity in a land not their own, as it is even now.
English Revised Version
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! oure fadris felden doun bi swerdis; oure sones, and oure douytris, and wyues ben led prisouneris for this greet trespas.
Update Bible Version
For, look, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Webster's Bible Translation
For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.
New King James Version
For indeed, because of this our fathers have fallen by the sword; and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity.
New Living Translation
Because of this, our fathers have been killed in battle, and our sons and daughters and wives have been captured.
New Life Bible
See, our fathers have fallen by the sword. And our sons, our daughters and our wives have been taken away to a strange land because of this.
New Revised Standard
Our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And lo! our fathers have fallen by the sword, and, our sons and our daughters and our wives, are in captivity for this.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.
Revised Standard Version
For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Young's Literal Translation
And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives [are] in captivity for this.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Contextual Overview

1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled twenty-nine years from Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. 2 Hezekiah obeyed the Lord by doing right, just as his ancestor David had done. 3 In the first month of the first year of Hezekiah's rule, he unlocked the doors to the Lord 's temple and had them repaired. 4 Then he called the priests and Levites to the east courtyard of the temple 5 and said: It's time to purify the temple of the Lord God of our ancestors. You Levites must first go through the ceremony to make yourselves clean, then go into the temple and bring out everything that is unclean and unacceptable to the Lord . 6 Some of our ancestors were unfaithful and disobeyed the Lord our God. Not only did they turn their backs on the Lord , but they also completely ignored his temple. 7 They locked the doors, then let the lamps go out and stopped burning incense and offering sacrifices to him. 8 The Lord became terribly angry at the people of Judah and Jerusalem, and everyone was shocked and horrified at what he did to punish them. Not only were 9 our ancestors killed in battle, but our own children and wives were taken captive. 10 So I have decided to renew our agreement with the Lord God of Israel. Maybe then he will stop being so angry at us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

our fathers: 2 Chronicles 28:5-8, 2 Chronicles 28:17, Leviticus 26:17, Lamentations 5:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:32 - sons Isaiah 3:25 - Thy men Micah 6:16 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 24:15
While he was still praying, a beautiful unmarried young woman came by with a water jar on her shoulder. She was Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah. Rebekah walked past Abraham's servant, then went over to the well, and filled her water jar. When she started back,
Genesis 29:7
Jacob told them, "Look, the sun is still high up in the sky, and it's too early to bring in the rest of the flocks. Water your sheep and take them back to the pasture."
Genesis 29:8
But they replied, "We can't do that until they all get here, and the rock has been rolled away from the well."
Genesis 29:15
Laban said to him, "You shouldn't have to work without pay, just because you are a relative of mine. What do you want me to give you?"
Genesis 29:16
Laban had two daughters. Leah was older than Rachel, but her eyes didn't sparkle, while Rachel was beautiful and had a good figure.
Exodus 2:21
Moses agreed to stay on with Jethro, who later let his daughter Zipporah marry Moses.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, 2 Chronicles 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, 2 Chronicles 28:8 and some of them were still in captivity, perhaps such as were carried captive by the Edomites, 2 Chronicles 28:17.


 
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