2 Chronicles 28:11

11 Listen to me! Send back the captives you took from your relatives, because the LORD is furious with you."

2 Chronicles 28:11 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:11

Now hear me therefore
And not only hear, but be obedient:

and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken of your brethren;
their women, sons and daughters, even all of them, the whole 200,000:

for the fierce wrath of God is upon you;
hangs over your heads, and will fall upon you, unless you do this.

2 Chronicles 28:11 In-Context

9 One of the LORD's prophets named Oded lived in Samaria. When the army arrived there, he went to meet them and said, "Don't you see that the LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah and let you defeat them? But look what you've done! Your merciless slaughter of them stinks to high heaven!

10 And now you think you can enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem? What about your own guilt before the LORD your God?

11 Listen to me! Send back the captives you took from your relatives, because the LORD is furious with you."

12 At this, some of the Ephraimite leaders—Johanan's son Azariah, Meshillemoth's son Berechiah, Shallum's son Jehizkiah, and Hadlai's son Amasa—confronted those returning from battle.

13 "Don't bring the captives here," they told them. "Your plan will only add to our sin and guilt before the LORD. We're already guilty enough, and great anger is already directed at Israel."