II Chronicles 28:11
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Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”
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This chapter is the history of the reign of Ahaz the son of Jotham; a bad reign it was, and which helped to augment the fierce anger of the Lord. We have here, I. His great wickedness (Ch2 28:1-4). II. The trouble he brought himself into by it (Ch2 28:5-8). III. The reproof which God sent by a prophet to the army of Israel for trampling upon their brethren of Judah, and the obedient ear they gave to that reproof (Ch2 28:9-15). IV. The many calamities that followed to Ahaz and his people (Ch2 28:16-21). V. The continuance of his idolatry notwithstanding (Ch2 28:22-25), and so his story ends (Ch2 28:26, Ch2 28:27).
Open source ↗28:11 The Chronicler expresses a positive attitude toward the north with the term relatives (literally brothers). • now the Lord’s fierce anger has been turned against you: Later, during Ahaz’s reign, the kingdom of Israel would be destroyed and exiled (722 BC, 2 Kgs 17:5-23).
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Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.