Verse 9

For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 28:17 : 17 For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.
  • 2 Chr 28:5-8 : 5 So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him. 6 For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers. 7 And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king. 8 And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria.
  • Lev 26:17 : 17 And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.
  • Lam 5:7 : 7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.