2 CHRONICLES 28:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the Lord God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.”
The prophet's moral challenge — 'And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. But are there not with you sins against the LORD your God?' (ועתה אתם אמרים להכניע את בני יהודה וירושׁלם לעבדים ולשׁפחות והלוא אתכם אשׁמות עם יהוה אלהיכם). Oded challenges the northerners: do they not recognize their own sins before the LORD? The rhetorical question implies that enslaving Judahites will bring divine judgment on Israel.
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