2 Chronicles 28:9

The prophet Oded confronts Israel's victorious army, warning that they have slaughtered their kinsmen in a rage that reaches heaven. He reminds them their victory was only God's permitted judgment on Judah.

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• Rev 18:5for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
• Isa 47:6I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
• Ezra 9:6and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
• Zech 1:15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
• Gen 11:4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
• Ps 69:26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
• 1 Kgs 20:42He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’”
• Ezek 26:2–3Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:
• Judg 3:8Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
• 1 Kgs 20:22The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”
• 2 Chr 28:5Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
• Jer 15:17–18I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
• Obad 1:10–16For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
• 2 Chr 19:1–2Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
• 2 Kgs 20:14–15Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”
• Gen 4:10Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
• 2 Chr 25:15–16Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?”
• Isa 10:5–7Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
• Ezek 25:12–17Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;
• 1 Kgs 20:13Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today; and you will know that I am Yahweh.’”

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