2 Chronicles 32:11
in 2 Chronicles 32Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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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This verse in 2 Chronicles 32
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
besieged Lachish
on 2 Chronicles 32:9-15
What Chronicles keeps is the charge Hezekiah’s reform provoked: “Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars”. The enemy turns the work into evidence that Judah’s God had been offended. John Gill refers to his notes on the parallel in Isaiah 36 for the speech’s fuller detail.
This site's exposition
death by famine and thirst
The threat of thirst meets a city that had hidden the springs outside the walls and brought water inside, as verses 3 and 30 record. Albert Barnes reads that work as aimed at both ends of the siege. The besiegers were the ones left dry.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
After, &c. - An emphatical preface, signifying, that notwithstanding all his zeal for God, God saw fit to exercise him with a sore trial. And God ordered it at this time, that he might have an opportunity of shewing himself strong, on the behalf of his returning people. It is possible, we may be in the way of our duty, and yet meet with trouble and danger.
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine, and by thirst,.... Suggesting that would be their case if they did not surrender: saying, the Lord our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? See Gill on Isa 36:15.
The real answer God gave to Sennacherib's blasphemies, and to Hezekiah's prayers, in the total rout of the Assyrian army, to the shame of Sennacherib and the honour of Hezekiah,
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
In what do you trust It is written (I Kings:5): “He trusted in the Lord God of Israel,” and it is also written there: (verse 7) “and he rebelled against the king of Assyria.” Therefore, he asked, “In what do you trust” that you have rebelled against me?
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Did not he - Hezekiah - who trusts in his God, did he not transgress?
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
16 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֲלֹ֤א | halo' | ¿ not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ | yechizkiyahu | [is] Hezekiah | H2396 → | 127 times |
| מַסִּ֣ית | masit | misleading | H5496 → | 18 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֔ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| לָתֵ֣ת | latet | to give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֔ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| לָמ֛וּת | lamut | to die | H4191 → | 839 times |
| בְּרָעָ֥ב | beraav | by hunger | H7458 → | 101 times |
| וּבְצָמָ֖א | uvetzama' | and by thirst | H6772 → | |
| לֵאמֹ֑ר | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ | ʾeloheinu | God our | H430 → | 2601 times |
| יַצִּילֵ֕נוּ | yatzilenu | he will deliver us | H5337 → | 212 times |
| מִכַּ֖ף | mikaf | from [the] hand of | H3709 → | 192 times |
| מֶ֥לֶךְ | melekh | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| אַשּֽׁוּר׃ | ʾashur | Assyria | H804 → | 151 times |
הֲלֹ֤א¿ not
halo'H3808 →5168 times
יְחִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙[is] Hezekiah
yechizkiyahuH2396 →127 times
מַסִּ֣יתmisleading
masitH5496 →18 times
אֶתְכֶ֔ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
לָתֵ֣תto give
latetH5414 →2011 times
אֶתְכֶ֔ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
לָמ֛וּתto die
lamutH4191 →839 times
בְּרָעָ֥בby hunger
beraavH7458 →101 times
וּבְצָמָ֖אand by thirst
uvetzama'H6772 →
לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
יְהוָ֣הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּGod our
ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times
יַצִּילֵ֕נוּhe will deliver us
yatzilenuH5337 →212 times
מִכַּ֖ףfrom [the] hand of
mikafH3709 →192 times
מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of
melekhH4428 →2525 times
אַשּֽׁוּר׃Assyria
ʾashurH804 →151 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
it leads to
- Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Joel 2:17
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among…
- Proverbs 12:18
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
- Psalms 42:3
Through
2 Kings 19:10“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of…
it leads to
- 2 Kings 18:5
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.
- 2 Kings 18:29–30
This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.
- 2 Kings 18:5
Through
2 Chronicles 32:15So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver…
it leads to
- Daniel 3:15
Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I…
- Exodus 5:2
But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
- Isaiah 36:18
Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Daniel 3:15
Where this verse is studied
About 2 Chronicles
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonDivided kingdomHezekiahThe reforming king of Judah who trusted Jehovah against Sennacherib, spread the Assyrian letter before the LORD, was granted fifte…
- PlaceUpper MesopotamiaAssyriaMesopotamian empire whose capital Nineveh repented at Jonah's preaching and fell to Nahum's burden in 612 BC; the rod of God's ang…
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.