2 Chronicles 28:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁבּוּ֩ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל מֵֽאֲחֵיהֶ֜ם מָאתַ֣יִם אֶ֗לֶף נָשִׁים֙ בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנ֔וֹת וְגַם־שָׁלָ֥ל רָ֖ב בָּזְז֣וּ מֵהֶ֑ם וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֶת־הַשָּׁלָ֖ל לְשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

wayyishbû bənê-Yiśrāʾêl mêʾaḥêhem māʾtayim ʾelep nāshîm bānîm ûḇānôt wəgam-shālāl rāḇ bāzəzû mêhem wayyāḇîʾû ʾet-hashshālāl ləShōmərôn

Grammar Details

*wayyishbû*: conjunction + 3rd masculine plural qal imperfect waw-consecutive - and they took captive
*bənê*-*Yiśrāʾêl*: masculine plural construct + proper noun - sons of Israel
*mêʾaḥêhem*: preposition + masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - from their brothers
*māʾtayim*: dual number - two hundred
*ʾelep*: masculine singular noun - thousand
*nāshîm*: feminine plural noun - women
*bānîm*: masculine plural noun - sons
*ûḇānôt*: conjunction + feminine plural noun - and daughters
*wəgam*-*shālāl*: conjunction + adverb + masculine singular noun - and also spoil/plunder
*rāḇ*: masculine singular adjective - great/much
*bāzəzû*: 3rd masculine plural qal perfect - they plundered
*mêhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - from them
*wayyāḇîʾû*: conjunction + 3rd masculine plural hiphil imperfect waw-consecutive - and they brought
*ʾet*-*hashshālāl*: direct object marker + definite article + masculine singular noun - the spoil/plunder
*ləShōmərôn*: preposition + proper noun - to Samaria

Word Meanings

*shālāl*: spoil/plunder/booty
*bāzəzû*: plundered/looted/seized as spoil

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 11:4 : 4 Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
Deut 28:25 : 25 Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deut 28:41 : 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
Acts 7:26 : 26 And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
Acts 13:26 : 26 {G435} Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent forth.

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2 Chr 28:9-15
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9But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up to heaven.
10And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but] are there not even with you trespasses of your own against Jehovah your God?
11Now 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.
12Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
13and said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for ye purpose that which will bring upon us a trespass against Jehovah, to add unto our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
14So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
15And the men that have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
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2 Chr 28:5
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5Wherefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
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2and had taken captive the women [and all] that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.
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2 Chr 21:17
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2 Kgs 17:23-24
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23until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
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Isa 14:2
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2And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
2 Kgs 14:14
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2 Kgs 18:10-11
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10And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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Jer 52:29
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2 Kgs 17:6
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2 Chr 25:24
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2 Sam 8:12
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2 Kgs 24:14-15
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1 Chr 5:21-22
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2 Chr 28:7
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2 Kgs 15:29
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Isa 8:4
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2 Chr 13:16
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