Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
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Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
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Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He hath delivered them to be a horror, an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 29:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 25:18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;
- Deuteronomy 28:25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- 2 Chronicles 24:18 They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
- Jeremiah 19:8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
- Jeremiah 29:18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
- Leviticus 26:32 I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it.
- Deuteronomy 28:15-20 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you. You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field. Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed. You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out. Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
- Deuteronomy 28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
- 1 Kings 9:8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
- 2 Chronicles 34:24-25 “Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’ ” ’
- 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem. Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place; but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- Jeremiah 18:15-16 For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up, to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He showeth that the contempt of religion is the…
He showeth that the contempt of religion is the cause of all God’s plagues.
Or, a nodding of the head and mockery.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was…
2Ch 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
Ver. 8. And he hath delivered them to trouble.] Heb., To commotion, so that they are scattered hither and thither, ut fit incursionibus Turcicis, as it falleth out wherever the great Turk setteth his foot.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To astonishment and to hissing, i.e. to such calamities…
To astonishment and to hissing, i.e. to such calamities as all that see and hear of shall be astonished at, and hiss at those who by their own sin and folly have brought such miseries upon themselves. See Poole "1Ki 9:8".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,....…
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, Ch2 28:5.
and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this; for this idolatry; or they were, though afterwards dismissed, Ch2 28:8 and some of them were still in captivity, perhaps such as were carried captive by the Edomites, Ch2 28:17.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Hissing - To such calamities as all that see…
Hissing - To such calamities as all that see and hear of, shall be astonished at, and hiss at those, who by their own sin and folly have brought such miseries upon themselves. When we are under the rebukes of God's providence, it is good for us to inquire, Whether we have not neglected God's ordinances, and whether that be not the controversy he has with us?
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. He hath delivered them to trouble, to…
Verse 8. He hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment] He probably refers here chiefly to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites in which a hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners; see the preceding chapter, 2Ch 28:6; 2Ch 28:8.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 29:8-9. He hath delivered them to trouble to…
2Ch 29:8-9. He hath delivered them to trouble to astonishment, and to hissing — To such calamities as all that see and hear of them shall be astonished at, and hiss at those who, by their own sin and folly, have brought such miseries upon themselves. When we are under the rebukes of God’s providence, it is good for us to inquire whether we have not neglected God’s ordinances, and whether that be not the controversy he has with us. Our wives are in captivity — Though they were presently released, 2Ch 28:5; 2Ch 28:14-15.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain He hath delivered them to ... hissing - See…
He hath delivered them to ... hissing - See 1Ki 9:8 note. It was an expression which Hezekiah might naturally use, for it had occurred in a prophecy of Micah Mic 6:16, his contemporary and monitor Jer 26:18-19, which was probably uttered toward the close of the reign of Ahaz. In Jeremiah the phrase becomes common (marginal references).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Trouble. Heb. zuae, (H.) is rendered vexation, Isaias xxviii.…
Trouble. Heb. zuae, (H.) is rendered vexation, Isaias xxviii. 19. Sept. "ecstasy." The Jews were frequently driven from their homes. M. --- There were at a loss what to do, confounded and despised. H.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah…
Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem--This pious king had the discernment to ascribe all the national calamities that had befallen the kingdom to the true cause, namely, apostasy from God. The country had been laid waste by successive wars of invasion, and its resources drained. Many families mourned members of their household still suffering the miseries of foreign captivity; all their former prosperity and glory had fled; and to what was this painful and humiliating state of affairs to be traced, but to the manifest judgment of God upon the kingdom for its sins?
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. The wrath of the Lord was upon Judah…
8. The wrath of the Lord was upon Judah — The afflictions which are mentioned in this verse and the following were those which Judah suffered under the reign of Ahaz, and which are described in the previous chapter.
To astonishment — An object of such great ruin as to astonish beholders.
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To hissing — An object of scornful derision.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing] R.V.…
8. to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing] R.V. to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and an hissing.
to trouble] Better as R.V. mg., to be a terror (or “cause of trembling”). The judgement on Israel fills the surrounding nations with trembling for themselves. The rendering of R.V. text “tossed to and fro” is inferior because the Heb. word describes “trembling” and not “motion from place to place.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) The wrath . . . was (i.e., fell)…
(8) The wrath . . . was (i.e., fell) upon Judah.—The phrase of 2Ch_24:18. (Comp. 2Ch_19:2; 2Ch_19:10.)
Delivered them to trouble . . .—Rather, made them a horror, an astonishment, and a hissing. The language is Deuteronomic. (Comp. Deu_28:25; Deu_28:37 : “Thou shalt become a horror . . . an astonishment.” Jer_25:9; Jer_25:18 : “I will make them an astonishment and a hissing,” et al.)
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As ye see with your (own) eyes.—For ye behold the disastrous results of the invasions of Aram and Israel, of Edom and the Philistines, and of the appeal to Assyria (2 Chronicles 28).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Wherefore the wrath. As illustrated by the defeats and…
Wherefore the wrath. As illustrated by the defeats and humiliations suffered at the hands of Pekah and Hazael, the Philistines and Edomites, and the Assyrians under Tiglath-Pileser. To trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing . Three words, carrying each a volume of meaning, and charged with the most powerful and painful of reminiscence Deu_28:25, Deu_28:28, 32 observe our ver. 9, 37, 46, 65, 66). The Hebrew word for "hissing" (hqrev) occurs, besides, five times in Jer_19:8; Jer_25:9, Jer_25:18; Jer_29:18; Jer_51:37, and once in the contemporary Prophet (Mic_6:16; comp. Jer_26:18)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Wherefore . . . the Lord . . .…
2Ch_29:8
Wherefore . . . the Lord . . . hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and an hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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The results of sinning
It is easier to see than to foresee the results of sinning. If a young man wont foresee the results of an intemperate or a licentious life, those who observe him will, sooner or later, see with their eyes the worst that he was warned of. If a business man wont foresee the results of a dishonest course, others will see it, by and by, in his character and reputation. The future looks fair to most evil doers at the beginning of their career. It is s pity that they do not more commonly consider at the start what a tossing to and fro, what an astonishment, what a hissing, they are sure to be delivered to in the sight of those who watch them, if they go on in the path which now opens attractively before them. (H. Clay Trumbull.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the wrath of Yahweh had fallen on Judah and…
the wrath of Yahweh had fallen on Judah and Jerusalem
Here the words "Judah and Jerusalem" refer to the people who live there. Hezekiah speaks of Yahweh being angry with the people and punishing them as if his wrath were an object that fell upon them. AT: "because Yahweh was angry, he had punished the people of Judah and Jerusalem" (See: Metonymy and Metaphor)
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an object of terror, of horror, and of scorn
This can be translated with verbal phrases. AT: "something that terrifies and horrifies people, and something that people scorn" (See: Abstract Nouns)
as you can see with your own eyes
The phrase "with your own eyes" emphasizes that the people can see this for themselves without others having to tell them about it. AT: "as you can see for yourselves"
our fathers have fallen by the sword
The idiom "fallen by the sword" means to die in battle. The word "sword" represents the soldiers, who used swords as their primary weapons. AT: "our fathers have died in battle" (See: Idiom and Metonymy)
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Judah
Jerusalem
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captive
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