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2 Chronicles 28:17

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Edomites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Edom;   Jareb;   Joktheel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Edom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Rezin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaz ;   Assyria ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaz;   Amasa;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hezekiah (2);   Judah, Kingdom of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Edomites came again, attacked Judah, and took captives.
Hebrew Names Version
For again the Edom had come and struck Yehudah, and carried away captives.
King James Version
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
English Standard Version
For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.
New English Translation
The Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried off captives.
Amplified Bible
For the Edomites had come again and attacked Judah and led away captives.
New American Standard Bible
For the Edomites had come again and attacked Judah, and led away captives.
World English Bible
For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.
Geneva Bible (1587)
(For the Edomites came moreouer, & slew of Iudah, and caryed away captiues.
Legacy Standard Bible
Indeed, again the Edomites had come and struck Judah and carried away captives.
Berean Standard Bible
The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away captives.
Complete Jewish Bible
For again the people from Edom had come, attacking Y'hudah and carrying off captives.
Darby Translation
And again the Edomites came and smote Judah, and carried away captives.
George Lamsa Translation
For until this time the Edomites came and smote Judah and carried away captives.
Lexham English Bible
since again the Edomites came and struck against Judah and took captives.
Literal Translation
And again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and had seized a captivity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the Edomites came agayne, and smote Iuda, and caried some awaye captyue.
American Standard Version
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
Bible in Basic English
For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Edomites came againe, and slue some of Iuda, and caryed away captiues.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
King James Version (1611)
For againe the Edomites had come and smitten Iudah, and caried away captiues.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
because the Idumeans had attacked him, and smitten Juda, and taken a number of prisoners.
English Revised Version
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Ydumeis camen, and killiden many men of Juda, and token greet prey.
Update Bible Version
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
Webster's Bible Translation
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
New King James Version
For again the Edomites had come, attacked Judah, and carried away captives.
New Living Translation
The armies of Edom had again invaded Judah and taken captives.
New Life Bible
For the Edomites had come to fight Judah again, and carried people away.
New Revised Standard
For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah, and carried away captives.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For again had, the Edomites, come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great booty.
Revised Standard Version
For the E'domites had again invaded and defeated Judah, and carried away captives.
Young's Literal Translation
and again the Edomites have come, and smite in Judah, and take captive a captivity.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For again the Edomites had come and attacked Judah and carried away captives.

Contextual Overview

16At about that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria asking for personal help. The Edomites had come back and given Judah a bad beating, taking off a bunch of captives. Adding insult to injury the Philistines raided the cities in the foothills to the west and the southern desert and captured Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, along with Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages, and moved in, making themselves at home. Arrogant King Ahaz, acting as if he could do without God's help, had unleashed an epidemic of depravity. Judah, brought to its knees by God , was now reduced to begging for a handout. But the king of Assyria, Tiglath-Pileser, wouldn't help—he came instead and humiliated Ahaz even more by attacking and bullying him. Desperate, Ahaz ransacked The Temple of God , the royal palace, and every other place he could think of, scraping together everything he could, and gave it to the king of Assyria—and got nothing in return, not a bit of help. 22But King Ahaz didn't learn his lesson—at the very time that everyone was turning against him, he continued to be against God ! He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus. He had just been defeated by Damascus; he thought, "If I worship the gods who helped Damascus, those gods just might help me, too." But things only went from bad to worse: first Ahaz in ruins and then the country. He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem. And not only in Jerusalem, but all over Judah—neighborhood shrines for worshiping any and every god on sale. And was God ever angry! 26The rest of Ahaz's infamous life, all that he did from start to finish, is written in the Royal Annals of the Kings of Judah and Israel. When Ahaz died, they buried him in Jerusalem, but he was not honored with a burial in the cemetery of the kings. His son Hezekiah was the next king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Edomites: 2 Chronicles 25:11, 2 Chronicles 25:12, Leviticus 26:18, Obadiah 1:10, Obadiah 1:13, Obadiah 1:14

captives: Heb. a captivity

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:40 - that thou 2 Chronicles 29:9 - our fathers Ezekiel 25:12 - Because Joel 3:4 - and what Amos 1:11 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 28:1
So Isaac called in Jacob and blessed him. Then he ordered him, "Don't take a Caananite wife. Leave at once. Go to Paddan Aram to the family of your mother's father, Bethuel. Get a wife for yourself from the daughters of your uncle Laban.
Genesis 28:13
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."
Exodus 3:6
Then he said, "I am the God of your father: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face, afraid to look at God.
Judges 13:22
Samson And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil in God 's sight. God put them under the domination of the Philistines for forty years. At that time there was a man named Manoah from Zorah from the tribe of Dan. His wife was barren and childless. The angel of God appeared to her and told her, "I know that you are barren and childless, but you're going to become pregnant and bear a son. But take much care: Drink no wine or beer; eat nothing ritually unclean. You are, in fact, pregnant right now, carrying a son. No razor will touch his head—the boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of his birth. He will launch the deliverance from Philistine oppression." The woman went to her husband and said, "A man of God came to me. He looked like the angel of God—terror laced with glory! I didn't ask him where he was from and he didn't tell me his name, but he told me, ‘You're pregnant. You're going to give birth to a son. Don't drink any wine or beer and eat nothing ritually unclean. The boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of birth to the day of his death.'" Manoah prayed to God : "Master, let the man of God you sent come to us again and teach us how to raise this boy who is to be born." God listened to Manoah. God's angel came again to the woman. She was sitting in the field; her husband Manoah wasn't there with her. She jumped to her feet and ran and told her husband: "He's back! The man who came to me that day!" Manoah got up and, following his wife, came to the man. He said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He said, "I am." Manoah said, "So. When what you say comes true, what do you have to tell us about this boy and his work?" The angel of God said to Manoah, "Keep in mind everything I told the woman. Eat nothing that comes from the vine: Drink no wine or beer; eat no ritually unclean foods. She's to observe everything I commanded her." Manoah said to the angel of God, "Please, stay with us a little longer; we'll prepare a meal for you—a young goat." God 's angel said to Manoah, "Even if I stay, I won't eat your food. But if you want to prepare a Whole-Burnt-Offering for God , go ahead—offer it!" Manoah had no idea that he was talking to the angel of God. Then Manoah asked the angel of God, "What's your name? When your words come true, we'd like to honor you." The angel of God said, "What's this? You ask for my name? You wouldn't understand—it's sheer wonder." So Manoah took the kid and the Grain-Offering and sacrificed them on a rock altar to God who works wonders. As the flames leapt up from the altar to heaven, God 's angel also ascended in the altar flames. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground. Manoah and his wife never saw the angel of God again. Only then did Manoah realize that this was God 's angel. He said to his wife, "We're as good as dead! We've looked on God!"
2 Chronicles 5:14
That completed the work King Solomon did on The Temple of God . He then brought in the holy offerings of his father David, the silver and the gold and the artifacts. He placed them all in the treasury of God's Temple. Bringing all this to a climax, Solomon got all the leaders together in Jerusalem—all the chiefs of tribes and the family patriarchs—to move the Chest of the Covenant of God from Zion and install it in The Temple. All the men of Israel assembled before the king on the feast day of the seventh month, the Feast of Booths. When all the leaders of Israel were ready, the Levites took up the Chest. They carried the Chest, the Tent of Meeting, and all the sacred things in the Tent used in worship. The priests, all Levites, carried them. King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel were there before the Chest, worshiping and sacrificing huge numbers of sheep and cattle—so many that no one could keep track. The priests brought the Chest of the Covenant of God to its place in the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim. The outspread wings of the cherubim formed a canopy over the Chest and its poles. The ends of the poles were so long that they stuck out from the entrance of the Inner Sanctuary, but were not noticeable further out—they're still there today. There was nothing in the Chest itself but the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb where God made a covenant with Israel after bringing them up from Egypt. The priests then left the Holy Place. All the priests there were consecrated, regardless of rank or assignment; and all the Levites who were musicians were there—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their families, dressed in their worship robes; the choir and orchestra assembled on the east side of the Altar and were joined by 120 priests blowing trumpets. The choir and trumpets made one voice of praise and thanks to God —orchestra and choir in perfect harmony singing and playing praise to God : Yes! God is good! His loyal love goes on forever! Then a billowing cloud filled The Temple of God . The priests couldn't even carry out their duties because of the cloud—the glory of God !—that filled The Temple of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Watch your step when you enter God's house. Enter to learn. That's far better than mindlessly offering a sacrifice, Doing more harm than good.
Matthew 17:6
When the disciples heard it, they fell flat on their faces, scared to death. But Jesus came over and touched them. "Don't be afraid." When they opened their eyes and looked around all they saw was Jesus, only Jesus.
1 Peter 4:17
It's judgment time for God's own family. We're first in line. If it starts with us, think what it's going to be like for those who refuse God's Message! If good people barely make it, What's in store for the bad? So if you find life difficult because you're doing what God said, take it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he's doing, and he'll keep on doing it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For again the Edomites had come,.... As in the days of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 20:10,

and smitten Judah, and carried away captives; taking the advantage of the weak and low condition Ahaz was in, and which was the reason of his sending to the king of Assyria.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Edomites took advantage of the reverses of Ahaz, and were perhaps in league with Rezin (see 2 Kings 16:6 note). The pitilessness of Edom, and her readiness to turn against Judah in any severe distress, is noticed and sternly rebuked by the prophets (Amos 1:11; Ezekiel 35:5; Obadiah 1:10-14, etc.).


 
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