2 Chronicles 28:8-15

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  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. ¹²  So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. ¹³  They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys. ¹⁴  They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, ¹⁵  the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

[28:8]  ¹ tn Heb “the loot.” The pronoun (“it”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[28:8]  ² map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[28:9]  ³ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

[28:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “saying.”

[28:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”

[28:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “sons.”

[28:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the Lord is upon you.”

[28:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “men from.”

[28:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “arose against.”

[28:13]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”

[28:15]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Heb “and poured oil on them.”

[28:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they led them on donkeys, with respect to everyone stumbling.”

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