Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
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.
New American Standard Bible
For behold,
King James Version
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Holman Bible
Our fathers fell by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
International Standard Version
Now look! Our ancestors have been killed with swords and our sons, daughters, and wives are being held captive because of all of this.
A Conservative Version
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
American Standard Version
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Amplified
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity because of this.
Darby Translation
And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Julia Smith Translation
And behold, our fathers fell by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives in captivity for this.
King James 2000
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity on account of this.
Modern King James verseion
For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For see, our fathers were overthrown with the sword and our sons, our daughters and our wives were carried away captive for the same cause.
NET Bible
Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.
New Heart English Bible
For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
The Emphasized Bible
And lo! our fathers have fallen by the sword, and, our sons and our daughters and our wives, are in captivity for this.
Webster
For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
World English Bible
For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Youngs Literal Translation
And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives are in captivity for this.
Themes
Evil » The reward for doing evil
Priest » Miscellaneous facts concerning » Zeal of, in purging the temple
The First Temple » Historical notices of » Purified and divine worship restored under hezekiah
Interlinear
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Naphal
Bath
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 29:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hezekiah Cleanses The Temple
8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen. 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. 10 Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:17
For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.
2 Chronicles 28:5-8
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.
Leviticus 26:17
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.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.