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Douay-Rheims Bible

2 Chronicles 29:9

Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.

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.
Contemporary English Version
our ancestors killed in battle, but our own children and wives were taken captive.
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.
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 Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias. 2 And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. 3 In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them. 4 And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street. 5 And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary. 6 Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs. 7 They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes. 9 Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness. 10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from 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
He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:
Genesis 29:7
And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it time to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep drink, and so lead them back to feed.
Genesis 29:8
They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered together, and we remove the stone from the well’s mouth, that we may water the flocks.
Genesis 29:15
He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.
Genesis 29:16
Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the younger was called Rachel.
Exodus 2:21
And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

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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