2 Chronicles 25:7-10

25:7 But a prophet ¹  visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. ²  25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you ³  before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.” ⁴  25:9 Amaziah asked the prophet: ⁵  “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet ⁶  replied, “The Lord is capable of giving you more than that.” 25:10 So Amaziah dismissed the troops that had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. ⁷  They were very angry at Judah and returned home incensed.

2 Chronicles 28:9-15

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. ⁸  28:10 And now you are planning ⁹  to enslave ¹⁰  the people ¹¹  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!” ¹²  28:12 So some of ¹³  the Ephraimite family leaders, Azariah son of Jehochanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jechizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai confronted ¹⁴  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? ¹⁵  Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” ¹⁶  28:14 So the soldiers released the captives and the plunder before the officials and the entire assembly. 28:15 Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. ¹⁷  So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. ¹⁸  They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys. ¹⁹  They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, ²⁰  the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

[25:7]  ¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:7]  ² tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”

[25:8]  ³ tn Heb “cause you to stumble.”

[25:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “to cause to stumble.”

[25:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “said to the man of God.”

[25:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Amaziah separated them, the troops who came to him from Ephraim, to go to their place.”

[28:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

[28:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[28:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”

[28:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “sons.”

[28:11]  ¹² tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the Lord is upon you.”

[28:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “men from.”

[28:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “arose against.”

[28:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”

[28:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”

[28:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and the men who were designated by names arose and took the captives and all their naked ones they clothed from the loot.”

[28:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and poured oil on them.”

[28:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they led them on donkeys, with respect to everyone stumbling.”

[28:15]  ²⁰ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.