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2 Chronicles 28 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
7 At that time Zechri a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maasias the king's son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, Elcana also second from the king.
8 And the children of Israel took of their brethren two hundred thousand of women, of boys, and of wenches, and an infinite prey: & they brought it into Samaria.
9 At that time there was a Prophet of our Lord, named Oded: who going forth to meet the army coming into Samaria, said to them: Behold our Lord the God of your fathers being angry against Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have slain them cruelly, so that your cruelty did reach to heaven.
10 Moreover the children of Juda and Jerusalem you will subdue unto you for bondmen and bond women, which needeth not to be done: for you have sinned hereupon to our Lord your God.
11 But hear ye my counsel, and carry back the captives, that you have brought of your brethren, because the great fury of our Lord hangeth over you.
12 There stood therefore Princes of the children of Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollomoth, Ezechias the son of Sellum, and Amasa the son of Hadali, against them that came out of the battle,
13 and they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin to our Lord. Why will you add upon our sins, and heap up old offences? For it is a great sin, and the anger of the fury of our Lord hangeth over Israel.
14 And the men of war dismist the prey, and all the things that they had taken, before the Princes and all the multitude.
15 And the men, whom we mentioned above, stood, and taking the captives, and all that were naked they clothed and shod them with the spoils: and when they had clothed and refreshed them with meat and drink, & anointed them because of their labour, and had looked carefully to them: as many as could not walk, and were of a weak body, they set on beasts, and brought them to Jericho the City of palm trees to their brethren, and themselves returned into Samaria.
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