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2 Chronicles 29:9

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For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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2 Chronicles 29:9 in other translations

For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

2 Chronicles 29:9 · World English Bible

2 Chronicles 29:9 in context

  1. 7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
  2. 8Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
  3. 9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
  4. 10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
  5. 11My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.