2 Chronicles 28:8–15

⁸Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their brothers—women, sons, and daughters. ^bThey also took a great deal of plunder from them and brought it to Samaria.

⁹A 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, ^cbut you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven. ^d10Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before Yahweh your God? ¹¹Listen to me and return the captives you took from your brothers, ^efor the Lord’s burning anger is on you.”

¹²So some men who were leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those coming from the war. ¹³They said to them, “You must not bring the captives here, for you plan to bring guilt on us from the Lord to add to our sins and our guilt. For we have much guilt, and burning anger is on Israel.”

¹⁴The army left the captives and the plunder in the presence of the officers and the congregation. ¹⁵Then the men who were designated by name ^ftook charge of the captives and provided clothes for their naked ones from the plunder. They clothed them, gave them sandals, food and drink, ^gdressed their wounds, and provided donkeys for all the feeble. The Israelites brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, ^hamong their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.