2 Chronicles 29:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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  • 2 Chr 28:17 : 17 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.
  • 2 Chr 28:5-8 : 5 Therefore, the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him and carried away a great multitude as captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. 7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king. 8 And the children of Israel carried away captive two hundred thousand of their brethren, women, sons, and daughters, and took also much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
  • Lev 26:17 : 17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.
  • Lam 5:7 : 7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.

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  • Ezra 9:7
    79%

    7Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    79%

    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Jer 9:18-21
    4 verses
    78%

    18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'

    20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

    21For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

  • 2 Chr 29:10
    76%

    10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

  • Ezra 9:13-14
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    76%

    13And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;

    14Should we again break Your commandments and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant or escaping?

  • Amos 7:17
    76%

    17Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.

  • Neh 9:36-37
    2 verses
    76%

    36Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

    37And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Neh 5:5
    76%

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

  • Jer 44:9
    76%

    9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    75%

    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Neh 9:32
    75%

    32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy, do not let all the hardship seem little before You that has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our forefathers, and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

  • Jer 18:21
    75%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Dan 9:12-14
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    75%

    12And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Ezra 9:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9For we were bondservants, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, to repair its desolations, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

    10And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,

  • Lam 1:18
    74%

    18The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

  • Isa 13:16
    74%

    16Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished.

  • Isa 3:25
    74%

    25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

  • Lam 2:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

    21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.

  • Amos 9:4
    74%

    4And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  • 1 Sam 30:3
    74%

    3So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

  • Jer 3:24
    74%

    24For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Dan 9:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

    8O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

  • Mic 2:9
    74%

    9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

  • Jer 29:16
    74%

    16Know that thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and all the people who dwell in this city, and your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity;

  • Neh 9:34
    73%

    34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

  • Jer 16:3
    73%

    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Jer 11:22
    73%

    22Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

  • Jer 16:10
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    10And it shall come to pass, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

  • Exod 22:24
    73%

    24and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
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    10And now you purpose to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as bondmen and bondwomen for yourselves, but are there not with you sins against the LORD your God?

    11Now hear me therefore, and return the captives, whom you have taken captive of your brethren, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

  • Jer 14:16
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    16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  • Jer 15:2
    73%

    2And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.

  • Deut 28:32
    73%

    32Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand.

  • Lam 5:16
    73%

    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

  • Jer 6:12
    73%

    12And their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.

  • Amos 1:15
    73%

    15And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, says the LORD.

  • Nah 3:10
    72%

    10Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    72%

    14behold, with a great plague the LORD will strike your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions.