Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their brothers—women, sons, and daughters.(A) They also took a great deal of plunder from them and brought it to Samaria.

A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of His wrath against Judah,(B) but you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven.(C) 10 Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before Yahweh your God? 11 Listen to me and return the captives you took from your brothers,(D) for the Lord’s burning anger is on you.”

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