Those leaders said to the Israelite soldiers, “Don’t bring the prisoners from Judah here. If you do that, it will make us sin worse against the Lord. That will make our sin and guilt worse and the Lord will be very angry against Israel!”
2 Chronicles 28:14 - Easy To Read Version So the soldiers gave the prisoners and valuable things to those leaders and to the people of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So the armed men [of Israel] left the captives and the spoil [of Judah] before the princes and all the assembly. American Standard Version (1901) So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly. Common English Bible So the warriors released the captives and brought the loot before the officers and the whole assembly. Catholic Public Domain Version And the warriors released the spoils and all that they had seized, in the sight of the leaders and the entire multitude. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken, before the princes and all the multitude. |
Those leaders said to the Israelite soldiers, “Don’t bring the prisoners from Judah here. If you do that, it will make us sin worse against the Lord. That will make our sin and guilt worse and the Lord will be very angry against Israel!”
The leaders (Azariah, Berekiah, Jehizkiah, and Amasa) stood up and helped the prisoners. These four men got the clothes that the Israelite army took and gave them to those people that were naked. Those leaders also gave shoes to those people. They gave the prisoners from Judah something to eat and drink. They rubbed oil on those people \{to soften and heal their wounds\}. Then those leaders from Ephraim put the weak prisoners on donkeys and took them back home to their families in Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then those four leaders went back home to Samaria.
Then the rich people and the officials said, “We will give it back. And we won’t demand anything more from them. Nehemiah, we will do as you say.”