11 Now therefore hear me, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken prisoners of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the Lord is toward you.

12 Wherefore certain of the chiefs of the children of [a]Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,

13 And said unto them, Bring not in the captives hither: for this shall be [b]a sin upon us against the Lord: ye intended to add more to our sins and to our trespass, though our trespass be great, and the fierce wrath of God is against Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 28:12 Which tribe was now greatest, and had most authority.
  2. 2 Chronicles 28:13 God will not suffer this sin, which we commit against him, to be unpunished.

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