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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Chronicles 28:14

The army left the captives and the plunder in the presence of the officers and the congregation.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jericho;   Repentance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Captive;   Oded;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephraim (1);   Slave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amasa;   Azariah;   Chronicles, Books of;   Oded;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaz ;   Amasa ;   Pekah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaz;   Amasa;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophets;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pekah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
King James Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
English Standard Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
New Century Version
So the soldiers left the prisoners and valuable things in front of the officers and people there.
New English Translation
So the soldiers released the captives and the plunder before the officials and the entire assembly.
Amplified Bible
So the armed men [of Israel] left the captives and the spoil [of Judah] before the officers and all the assembly.
New American Standard Bible
So the armed men left the captives and the spoils before the officers and all the assembly.
World English Bible
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the armie left the captiues & the spoyle before the princes and all the Congregation.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the commanders and all the assembly.
Berean Standard Bible
So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.
Contemporary English Version
So in front of the leaders and the crowd, the troops handed over their prisoners and the property they had taken from Judah.
Complete Jewish Bible
So the armed soldiers left the captives and the spoil there with the leaders and the whole community;
Darby Translation
Then the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the soldiers gave the prisoners and valuable things to the leaders and to the people.
George Lamsa Translation
So they sent back all the captives to Jerusalem. But again they dealt deceitfully with the LORD.
Good News Translation
So then the army handed the prisoners and the loot over to the people and their leaders,
Lexham English Bible
So the soldiers left the captives and the plunder before the commanders and all the assembly.
Literal Translation
And the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the leaders and all the congregation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So the hoost lefte the presoners & the spoyle before ye rulers and before the whole cogregacion.
American Standard Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
Bible in Basic English
So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And vpon that, the men of armes left the captiues and the spoyle before the lordes and all the congregation:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
King James Version (1611)
So the armed men left the captiues, and the spoile before the Princes, and all the congregation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So the warriors left the prisoners and the spoils before the princes and all the congregation.
English Revised Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the men werriouris leften the prey, and alle thingis whiche thei hadden take, bifor the princes and al the multitude.
Update Bible Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
Webster's Bible Translation
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
New King James Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the leaders and all the assembly.
New Living Translation
So the warriors released the prisoners and handed over the plunder in the sight of the leaders and all the people.
New Life Bible
So the men of war left the people and things taken from Judah in front of the leaders and all the people of Israel.
New Revised Standard
So the warriors left the captives and the booty before the officials and all the assembly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the armed men left the captives, and tile plunder, before the rulers, and all the convocation.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken, before the princes and all the multitude.
Revised Standard Version
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
Young's Literal Translation
And the armed men leave the captives and the prey before the heads and all the assembly;
THE MESSAGE
So the soldiers turned over both the captives and the plunder to the leaders and the people. Personally designated men gathered the captives together, dressed the ones who were naked using clothing from the stores of plunder, put shoes on their feet, gave them all a square meal, provided first aid to the injured, put the weak ones on donkeys, and then escorted them to Jericho, the City of Palms, restoring them to their families. Then they went back to Samaria.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the officers and all the assembly.

Contextual Overview

6Pekah son of Remaliah killed one hundred twenty thousand in Judah in one day—all brave men—because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. 7An Ephraimite warrior named Zichri killed the king’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam governor of the palace, and Elkanah who was second to the king. 8Then the Israelites took two hundred thousand captives from their brothers—women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder from them and brought it to Samaria. 9A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of his wrath against Judah, but you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven. 10Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before the Lord your God? 11Listen to me and return the captives you took from your brothers, for the Lord’s burning anger is on you.” 12So some men who were leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those coming from the war. 13They said to them, “You must not bring the captives here, for you plan to bring guilt on us from the Lord to add to our sins and our guilt. For we have much guilt, and burning anger is on Israel.” 14The army left the captives and the plunder in the presence of the officers and the congregation. 15Then the men who were designated by name took charge of the captives and provided clothes for their naked ones from the plunder. They clothed them, gave them sandals, food and drink, dressed their wounds, and provided donkeys for all the feeble. The Israelites brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, among their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:12 - We will restore

Cross-References

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you,I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt,and all the peoples on earthwill be blessed through you.
Genesis 13:14
After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Genesis 18:18
Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
Genesis 22:18
And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.”
Genesis 26:4
I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,
Genesis 28:11
He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.
Genesis 32:12
You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.’”
Numbers 23:10
Who has counted the dust of Jacobor numbered even one-fourth of Israel?Let me die the death of the upright;let the end of my life be like theirs.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and the congregation. Which were come out of Samaria to meet them; such an effect had the word's of the prophet, and the princes, upon them, that they not only left the captives with them, but the spoil, to dispose of, as they thought fit.


 
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