English Standard Version
2 Chronicles 15:6
6They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
2 Chronicles 15:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
- New International Version (NIV)One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.
Context of 2 Chronicles 15:6
4but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them. 5In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands. They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress. 7But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded." 8As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 152 Chronicles 15:6 word by word
וְכֻתְּת֥וּ גוֹי־בְּג֖וֹי וְעִ֣יר בְּעִ֑יר כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֥ים הֲמָמָ֖ם בְּכָל־צָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 15:6
- 2 Chronicles 12:15Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
- 2 Chronicles 13:17Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.
- Mark 13:8For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
- Luke 21:9And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once."
- 2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore he brought up against 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 aged. He gave them all into his hand.
- Judges 2:14So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
- Psalms 106:41he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.
- Isaiah 10:6Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Amos 3:6Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
- Luke 21:22for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 15:6
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The allusion is probably to the destructions recorded in Judges 9:45; 20:33-48.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6The dark times, caused by not knowing God (see Hosea 3:4–5), likely refer to the period of the judges.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-63-6. Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, &c.--Some think that Azariah was referring to the sad and disastrous condition to which superstition and idolatry had brought the neighboring kingdom of Israel. His words should rather be taken in a wider sense, for it seems manifest that the prophet had his eye upon many periods in the national history, when the people were in the state described--a state of spiritual destitution and…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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