2 Chronicles 28:11
Good News Translation
Listen to me! These prisoners are your brothers and sisters. Let them go, or the LORD will punish you in his anger."

New Revised Standard Version
Now hear me, and send back the captives whom you have taken from your kindred, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”

Contemporary English Version
Send these prisoners back home--they are your own relatives. If you don't, the LORD will punish you in his anger.

New American Bible
Now listen to me: send back the captives you have carried off from among your kin, for the burning anger of the LORD is upon you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you.

deliver

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden.

Jeremiah 34:14,15 At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear. . . .

Hebrews 13:1-3 Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you. . . .

the fierce

Ezra 10:14 Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our cities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times appointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city, until the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.

Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Context
Judah Defeated by Aram
10Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and Jerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done: for you have sinned in this against the Lord your God. 11But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you.12Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of Sellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from the war.…
Cross References
James 2:13
For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

2 Chronicles 28:8
And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28:12
Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of Sellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from the war.

Ezra 10:14
Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our cities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times appointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city, until the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.

Psalm 88:16
Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

2 Chronicles 28:10
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