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2 Chronicles 28 · a question people ask

If the LORD delivered Judah into Israel's hand, why does Oded say the LORD's wrath is on Israel?

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Oded says both, and gives his reasons. "Because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand" (28:9). Then he names what Israel's army did with it: "you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven" (28:9), and "Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves" (28:10). And he asks, "Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against the LORD your God?" (28:10). So he tells them, "send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is on you" (28:11). The heads of Ephraim say the same of themselves: "our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel" (28:13). The chapter gives these reasons in Oded's words and in theirs, and adds no others.

The verses

“and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against the LORD, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.””
2 Chronicles 28:13 · World English Bible

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2 Chronicles 28: Send back the captives

Only 2 Chronicles tells that a prophet named Oded met Israel's army bringing Judah's captives to Samaria and asked, "Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against the LORD your God?" (28:10), and that named men clothed and fed the captives and brought them to Jericho (28:15). Ahaz sought help from Assyria and the gods of Damascus, and they "were the ruin of him" (28:23).

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