“For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 2 Chronicles 29 contains 36 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.