2 Chronicles 32:14
in 2 Chronicles 32Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
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ASV
Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
KJV
Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
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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
devoted to destruction
Devoted to destruction renders the Hebrew herem, the word for the ban Israel carried out at Jericho in Joshua 6. The Assyrian claims the language of holy war for his own conquests. Isaiah 10:5 calls Assyria the rod of the LORD's anger.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), but, as if he were inferior to them all, How much less shall your God deliver you? as if he were less able to help than any of them. Thus did they rail, rail in writing (which, being more deliberate, is so much the worse), on the Lord God of Israel, as if he were a cipher and an empty name, like all the rest,
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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.
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
whom my fathers destroyed Pul, the king of Assyria, and Tiglath-Pilneser.
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
20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִ֠י | mi | who? | H4310 → | 423 times |
| בְּֽכָל־ | bekhol | among all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֞י | ʾelohei | [the] gods of | H430 → | 2601 times |
| הַגּוֹיִ֤ם | hagoyim | the nations | H1471 → | 561 times |
| הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ | haeleh | <the> these | H428 → | 746 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הֶחֱרִ֣ימוּ | hecherimu | they totally destroyed | H2763 → | |
| אֲבוֹתַ֔י | ʾavotai | fathers my | H1 → | 1212 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | [is one] which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יָכ֔וֹל | yakhol | it was able | H3201 → | 194 times |
| לְהַצִּ֥יל | lehatzil | to deliver | H5337 → | 212 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עַמּ֖וֹ | amo | people its | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| מִיָּדִ֑י | miyadi | from hand my | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| כִּ֤י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יוּכַל֙ | yukhal | he will be able | H3201 → | 194 times |
| אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| לְהַצִּ֥יל | lehatzil | to deliver | H5337 → | 212 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֖ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִיָּדִֽי׃ | miyadi | from hand my | H3027 → | 1618 times |
מִ֠יwho?
miH4310 →423 times
בְּֽכָל־among all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
אֱלֹהֵ֞י[the] gods of
ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times
הַגּוֹיִ֤םthe nations
hagoyimH1471 →561 times
הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙<the> these
haelehH428 →746 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
הֶחֱרִ֣ימוּthey totally destroyed
hecherimuH2763 →
אֲבוֹתַ֔יfathers my
ʾavotaiH1 →1212 times
אֲשֶׁ֣ר[is one] which
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
יָכ֔וֹלit was able
yakholH3201 →194 times
לְהַצִּ֥ילto deliver
lehatzilH5337 →212 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
עַמּ֖וֹpeople its
amoH5971 →1873 times
מִיָּדִ֑יfrom hand my
miyadiH3027 →1618 times
כִּ֤יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
יוּכַל֙he will be able
yukhalH3201 →194 times
אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔םGod your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times
לְהַצִּ֥ילto deliver
lehatzilH5337 →212 times
אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
מִיָּדִֽי׃from hand my
miyadiH3027 →1618 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
Isaiah 42:8I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
it leads to
- Isaiah 48:11
For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
- Isaiah 43:11
I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
- Exodus 34:14
For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Exodus 20:3–5
You shall have no other gods before Me.
- Psalms 83:18
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
- Isaiah 48:11
Through
Exodus 14:3For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
it leads to
- Acts 4:28
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
- Deuteronomy 31:21
And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even…
- Psalms 139:4
Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
- Acts 4:28
Where this verse is studied
About 2 Chronicles
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.