So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.
Parallel translations
- WEB They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
- KJV And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
- BSB Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
- NASB Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every kind of distress.
- NLT Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.
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Quick answer
Nations and cities were shattered against one another because God troubled them with adversity. Even political conflict can be God's discipline for sin.
Overview
Azariah attributes the era's turmoil to God's hand troubling a wayward people. The Chronicler sees God as sovereign over the rise and fall of nations, using adversity to call them back. This sobering truth warns against forsaking God while affirming His rule over all history.
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- Luke 21:22–24For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
- 2 Chr 13:17Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
- Luke 21:9–10When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”
- Matt 24:7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
- 2 Chr 33:11Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- 2 Chr 12:15Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
- 2 Chr 36:17Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.
- Amos 3:6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
- Isa 10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Ps 106:41He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.
- Mark 13:8For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.
- Judg 2:14Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
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