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12 aHas not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, “You shall worship before one altar and burn incense on bit”?  
13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? aWere the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?  
14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my ahand?  
15 Now therefore, ado not let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you like this, and do not believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand?’ ”  
16 Furthermore, his servants spoke against the Lord God and against His servant Hezekiah.
17 He also wrote letters to revile the Lord God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, a“As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my bhand.”  
18 aThen they called out with a loud voice in1 Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and trouble them, that they might take the city.  
19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth—athe work of men’s hands.  
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2 Chronicles 32:9-22

The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (II Kings 18:17-19; where see the notes).

II Chronicles 32:10

In the siege - Perhaps "in straitness" (compare Jeremiah 19:9). Jerusalem is thought by some to have been not so much besieged at this time, as distressed and straitened for supplies, because the Assyrians were masters of the open country.

II Chronicles 32:13

fathers - i. e. "predecessors." Sennacherib really belonged to a dynasty that had only furnished one king before himself.

II Chronicles 32:22

Guided them ... - A slight alteration of the existing text gives the sense - "gave them rest round about;" a common expression in Chronicles II Chronicles 15:15; II Chronicles 20:30.


 
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