2 Cronache 28:9

9 Or quivi era un profeta del Signore, il cui nome era Oded; ed egli uscì incontrò all’esercito, ch’entrava in Samaria; e disse loro: Ecco, il Signore Iddio de’ vostri padri, perchè era adirato contro a Giuda, ve li ha dati nelle mani; e voi ne avete uccisi a furore tanti, che il numero arriva infino al cielo.

2 Cronache 28:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:9

But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded
Not the same that was in the time of Asa, ( 2 Chronicles 15:1 2 Chronicles 15:8 ) ,

and he went out before the host that came to Samaria;
that was coming thither; he went out of Samaria to meet them:

and said unto them, behold, because the Lord God of your fathers was
wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand;
he let them know it was not owing to their wisdom and conduct, their prowess and courage, that they had got the victory over them, but because the Lord was displeased with them for their sins, and therefore gave them up into their hands:

and ye have slain them in a rage that reaches up unto heaven;
that is, with an exceeding great rage and fury, and the cry of which reached to heaven also, and was displeasing to God; he suggests to them, that they had exceeded all bounds, and had not shown that compassion to their brethren, when fallen into their hands, they ought to have done, and which therefore was resented by the God of heaven, see ( Zechariah 1:15 ) .

2 Cronache 28:9 In-Context

7 E Zicri, uomo possente di Efraim, uccise Maaseia, figliuolo del re, e Azricam, mastro del palazzo, ed Elcana, la seconda persona dopo il re.
8 E i figliuoli d’Israele menarono prigioni dugentomila persone de’ lor fratelli, tra donne, figliuoli e figliuole; e anche fecero sopra loro una gran preda, la quale conducevano in Samaria.
9 Or quivi era un profeta del Signore, il cui nome era Oded; ed egli uscì incontrò all’esercito, ch’entrava in Samaria; e disse loro: Ecco, il Signore Iddio de’ vostri padri, perchè era adirato contro a Giuda, ve li ha dati nelle mani; e voi ne avete uccisi a furore tanti, che il numero arriva infino al cielo.
10 E pure ancora al presente voi deliberate di sottomettervi per servi, e per serve, i figliuoli di Giuda e di Gerusalemme. Non è egli vero, che già non v’è altro in voi, se non colpe contro al Signore Iddio vostro?
11 Ora dunque, ascoltatemi, e riconducete i prigioni che avete presi d’infra i vostri fratelli; perciocchè v’è ira accesa del Signore contro a voi.
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