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15 Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked.[a] So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin.[b] They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys.[c] They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, the city of date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

16 At that time King Ahaz asked the king[d] of Assyria for help. 17 The Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried off captives.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 28:15 tn Heb “and the men who were designated by names arose and took the captives and all their naked ones they clothed from the loot.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 28:15 tn Heb “and poured oil on them.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 28:15 tn Heb “and they led them on donkeys, with respect to everyone stumbling.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 28:16 tc Most Hebrew mss read the plural, “kings,” but one Hebrew ms, the LXX and Vulgate read the singular “king.” Note the singular in v. 20.