2 Chronicles 28:11
New International Version
Now listen to me! Send back your fellow Israelites you have taken as prisoners, for the LORD’s fierce anger rests on you.”

New Living Translation
Listen to me and return these prisoners you have taken, for they are your own relatives. Watch out, because now the LORD’s fierce anger has been turned against you!”

English Standard Version
Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”

Berean Standard Bible
Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”

King James Bible
Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

New King James Version
Now hear me, therefore, and return the captives, whom you have taken captive from your brethren, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”

New American Standard Bible
Now then, listen to me and return the captives whom you captured from your brothers, for the burning anger of the LORD is against you.”

NASB 1995
“Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives whom you captured from your brothers, for the burning anger of the LORD is against you.”

NASB 1977
“Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives whom you captured from your brothers, for the burning anger of the LORD is against you.”

Legacy Standard Bible
So now, listen to me and return the captives whom you carried away from your brothers, for the burning anger of Yahweh is against you.”

Amplified Bible
Now therefore, hear me and return the captives whom you have captured from your brothers (fellow descendants of Israel, i.e. Jacob), for the burning anger of the LORD is against you.”

Christian Standard Bible
Listen to me and return the captives you took from your brothers, for the LORD’s burning anger is on you.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen to me and return the captives you took from your brothers, for the LORD’s burning anger is on you.”

American Standard Version
Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that ye have taken captive of your brethren; for the fierce wrath of Jehovah is upon you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Also now hear me, and return the captivity that you have captured from your brethren, lest you will raise up the anger of LORD JEHOVAH against you!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now hearken to me, and restore the prisoners of your brethren whom ye have taken: for the fierce anger of the Lord is upon you.

Contemporary English Version
Send these prisoners back home--they are your own relatives. If you don't, the LORD will punish you in his anger.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you.

English Revised Version
Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen to me. Return these prisoners you have captured from your relatives, because the LORD is very angry with you."

Good News Translation
Listen to me! These prisoners are your brothers and sisters. Let them go, or the LORD will punish you in his anger."

International Standard Version
So listen to me! Return the captives whom you've captured from your brothers, because the anger of the LORD is burning hot against you!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that ye have taken captive of your brethren; for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.'

Literal Standard Version
And now, hear me, and send back the captives whom you have taken captive of your brothers, for the heat of the anger of YHWH [is] on you.”

Majority Standard Bible
Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”

New American Bible
Now listen to me: send back the captives you have carried off from among your kin, for the burning anger of the LORD is upon you.”

NET Bible
Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the LORD is very angry at you!"

New Revised Standard Version
Now hear me, and send back the captives whom you have taken from your kindred, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”

New Heart English Bible
Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you have taken captive from your brothers; for the fierce wrath of the LORD is on you."

Webster's Bible Translation
Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

World English Bible
Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

Young's Literal Translation
and now, hear me, and send back the captives whom ye have taken captive of your brethren, for the heat of the anger of Jehovah is upon you.'

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Context
Judah Defeated by Aram
10And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God? 11Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.” 12Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.…

Cross References
James 2:13
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

2 Chronicles 28:8
Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen--women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28:12
Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites--Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai--stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.

Ezra 10:14
Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us."

Psalm 88:16
Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.


Treasury of Scripture

Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which you have taken captive of your brothers: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is on you.

deliver

Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Jeremiah 34:14,15
At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear…

Hebrews 13:1-3
Let brotherly love continue…

the fierce

Ezra 10:14
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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2 Chronicles 28
1. Ahaz, reigning wickedly, is greatly afflicted by the Syrians.
6. Judah, being captivated by the Israelites, is sent home by the counsel of Oded.
16. Ahaz sending for aid to Assyria, is not helped thereby,
22. In his distress he grows more idolatrous
26. He dying, Hezekiah succeeds him














(11) Now hear me therefore.--And now hearken to me (2Chronicles 13:4; 2Chronicles 15:2). The "and now" is illative, not temporal.

Deliver . . . again.--Cause to return, send back.

Pierce wrath.--Heat of anger, i.e., hot anger. Leviticus 25:39, expressly forbids the permanent enslaving of Israelites by Israelites.

Verse 11. - The fierce wrath; i.e. not unannounced, for Oded means to say, "You are doing contrary to the Law and the Prophet Moses," as just quoted.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now therefore,
וְעַתָּ֣ה (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

listen to me
שְׁמָע֔וּנִי (šə·mā·‘ū·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural | first person common singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

and return
וְהָשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ (wə·hā·šî·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

the captives
הַשִּׁבְיָ֔ה (haš·šiḇ·yāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7633: Captivity, captives

you took
שְׁבִיתֶ֖ם (šə·ḇî·ṯem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7617: To transport into captivity

from your kinsmen,
מֵאֲחֵיכֶ֑ם (mê·’ă·ḥê·ḵem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 251: A brother, )

for
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the fierce anger
חֲר֥וֹן (ḥă·rō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2740: A burning of anger

of the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

is upon you.”
עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃ (‘ă·lê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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