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2 Chronicles 32:13

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Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?

KJV

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 32

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This 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

the peoples of the lands

The fathers in this verse are the kings who ruled Assyria before Sennacherib. Albert Barnes notes that his own line had given only one king before him. The boast borrows the conquests of other dynasties.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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

Did not he - Hezekiah - who trusts in his God, did he not transgress?
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 32:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
whom my fathers destroyed Pul, the king of Assyria, and Tiglath-Pilneser.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 32:14:1, 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

18 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.

  • הֲלֹ֣א¿ not

    halo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תֵדְע֗וּdo you know

    tedeuH3045 →945 times

  • מֶ֤הwhat?

    mehH4100 →752 times

  • עָשִׂ֙יתִי֙have I done

    ʾasitiH6213 →2628 times

  • אֲנִ֣יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • וַאֲבוֹתַ֔יand fathers my

    vaavotaiH1 →1212 times

  • לְכֹ֖לto all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • עַמֵּ֣י[the] peoples of

    ʾameiH5971 →1873 times

  • הָאֲרָצ֑וֹתthe lands

    haaratzotH776 →2504 times

  • הֲיָכ֣וֹל¿ really <to be able>

    hayakholH3201 →194 times

  • יָֽכְל֗וּwere they able

    yakheluH3201 →194 times

  • אֱלֹהֵי֙[the] gods of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • גּוֹיֵ֣[the] nations of

    goyeH1471 →561 times

  • הָאֲרָצ֔וֹתthe lands

    haaratzotH776 →2504 times

  • לְהַצִּ֥ילto deliver

    lehatzilH5337 →212 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַרְצָ֖םland their

    ʾartzamH776 →2504 times

  • מִיָּדִֽי׃from hand my

    miyadiH3027 →1618 times

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

Related verses

18 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.

2 Kings 18:33–35Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?3 worksDaniel 5:19Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.2 worksIsaiah 10:9–10“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?2 worksJeremiah 10:11–12Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”2 works2 Kings 17:5–6Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.2 works2 Chronicles 32:19They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 19:11–13Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?2 worksIsaiah 37:18–20Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.2 worksIsaiah 37:12–13Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?2 worksPsalms 115:3–8Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.2 works2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.2 works2 Kings 19:17–19Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.2 worksDaniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.2 worksDaniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”2 worksIsaiah 10:14My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”2 works1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.2 worksJeremiah 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.2 worksIsaiah 44:8–10Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”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

    Daniel 5:19

    Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted…

    it leads to

    • Daniel 3:6

      And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”

    • Daniel 2:12–13

      This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

    • Daniel 3:4

      Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O people of every nation and language, this is what you are commanded:

    • Proverbs 16:14

      The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

    • Daniel 3:20–21

      and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.

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 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 Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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