The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Chronicles 32:3 (ASV)

he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:4 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying: 'Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?'

 

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2 Chronicles 32:5 (NIV)

Then he worked hard repairing all the broken sections of the wall and building towers on it. He built another wall outside that one and reinforced the terraces of the City of David. He also made large numbers of weapons and shields.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:6 (NIV)

He appointed military officers over the people and assembled them before him in the square at the city gate and encouraged them with these words:

 

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2 Chronicles 32:7 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a Greater with us than with him:

 

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2 Chronicles 32:8 (NIV)

With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people gained confidence from what Hezekiah the king of Judah said.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:9 (NIV)

Later, when Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah king of Judah and for all the people of Judah who were there:

 

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2 Chronicles 32:10 (King James 2000 Bible)
Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do you trust, that you remain in the siege in Jerusalem?

 

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2 Chronicles 32:11 (KJV)
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

 

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2 Chronicles 32:12 (KJV)
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

 

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2 Chronicles 32:13 (KJV)

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?

 

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2 Chronicles 32:14 (KJV)

Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?

 

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2 Chronicles 32:15 (CSB)
So now, don't let Hezekiah deceive you, and don't let him mislead you like this. Don't believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my fathers. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!'"

 

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2 Chronicles 32:16 (NIV)

Sennacherib’s officers spoke further against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:17 (NIV)

The king also wrote letters ridiculing the Lord, the God of Israel, and saying this against him: “Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”

 

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2 Chronicles 32:18 (BSB)
Then the Assyrians called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them in order that to capture the city.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:19 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:20 (ERV)
And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:21 (ESV)

And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:22 (ESV)

So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.