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2 Chronicles 32:1

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After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.

KJV

After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 32

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
The establishment thereof - literally, “the faithfulness thereof” or, in other words, “after these things had been faithfully accomplished.” 2Ch 32:1-8 form a passage supplementary to 2Ki 18:13-16.

This site's exposition

After all these acts of faithfulness

on 2 Chronicles 32:1-2

Chronicles opens Sennacherib’s invasion with a clause Kings does not carry: “After all these acts of faithfulness”, tying the Assyrian threat to the temple reform. Albert Barnes renders the Hebrew word as faithfulness, the reform completed and secured before the trial arrived. The Kings exposition carries the campaign’s full detail.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

After these things, and the establishment thereof,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It was well ordered by the divine Providence that he did not give them this disturbance before the reformation was finished and established, as it might then have put a stop to it. Perhaps he intended to chastise Hezekiah for destroying that idolatry to which he himself was devoted.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

After these things, and the establishment thereof--that is, the restoration of the temple-worship. The precise date is given, 2Ki 18:13. Determined to recover the independence of his country, Hezekiah had decided to refuse to pay the tribute which his father had bound himself to pay to Assyria.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

After these things - God did not permit this pious prince to be disturbed till he had completed the reformation which he had begun.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

After these deeds of integrity, etc. and planned to make a breach therein - Heb.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 32:1:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אַחֲרֵ֨יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֤יםthe matters

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • וְהָאֱמֶת֙and the faithfulness

    vehaemetH571 →127 times

  • הָאֵ֔לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • בָּ֖אhe came

    ba'H935 →2568 times

  • סַנְחֵרִ֣יבSennacherib

    sancherivH5576 →13 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • אַשּׁ֑וּרAssyria

    ʾashurH804 →151 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֣אand he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • בִֽיהוּדָ֗הin Judah

    vihudahH3063 →819 times

  • וַיִּ֙חַן֙and he encamped

    vaiyichanH2583 →

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הֶעָרִ֣יםthe cities

    hearimH5892 →1090 times

  • הַבְּצֻר֔וֹת<the> fortified

    habetzurotH1219 →37 times

  • וַיֹּ֖אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • לְבִקְעָ֥םto break into them

    levikamH1234 →51 times

  • אֵלָֽיו׃to himself

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

13 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 36:1In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.6 works2 Kings 18:13–37In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.3 works2 Chronicles 6:28When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,3 worksIsaiah 7:17–18The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”2 worksIsaiah 8:6–8“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,2 works2 Chronicles 20:1–2After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat.2 works
The other 7 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 18:11The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.2 worksIsaiah 10:5–11Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.2 works2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.2 worksHosea 11:5Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?2 works2 Kings 15:19Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.2 worksMicah 2:13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.2 works2 Chronicles 32:4Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 36:1

    In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 18:13

      In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

    • 2 Kings 18:17

      Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by…

    • Isaiah 10:28–32

      Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.

    • Isaiah 1:7–8

      Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

    • Isaiah 8:7–8

      the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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