2 Chronicles 28:8-13

28:8 The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it ¹  back to Samaria. ² 

28:9 Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. ³  28:10 And now you are planning ⁴  to enslave ⁵  the people ⁶  of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God? 28:11 Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the Lord is very angry at you!” ⁷  28:12 So some of ⁸  the Ephraimite family leaders, Azariah son of Jehochanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jechizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai confronted ⁹  those returning from the battle. 28:13 They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? ¹⁰  Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “the loot.” The pronoun (“it”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

² map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

³ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

⁴ tn Heb “saying.”

⁵ tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”

⁶ tn Heb “sons.”

⁷ tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the Lord is upon you.”

⁸ tn Heb “men from.”

⁹ tn Heb “arose against.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”

¹¹ tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”