NITHYAM SONGS2 Chronicles 32
World English Bible (WEB) • 33 verses
1After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.
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2When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,
3he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.
RelatedProverbs 20:18 · Proverbs 24:6 · Proverbs 15:22 · 2 Kings 20:20 · Romans 11:34 · Isaiah 40:13
4Then many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”
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5He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
Related2 Chronicles 25:23 · 1 Kings 9:24 · Isaiah 22:9-10 · 2 Samuel 5:9 · 2 Kings 25:4 · 2 Chronicles 26:8
6He set captains of war over the people, gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,
Related2 Chronicles 30:22 · Isaiah 40:2 · 2 Chronicles 17:14-19 · Ezra 10:9 · Genesis 34:3 · Nehemiah 8:16
7“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.
Related2 Kings 6:16 · Romans 8:31 · Ephesians 6:10 · 2 Chronicles 20:15 · 1 John 4:4 · 2 Kings 18:30
8An arm of flesh is with him, but the LORD our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
RelatedJeremiah 17:5 · 2 Chronicles 20:17 · Acts 18:10 · 2 Timothy 4:17 · Isaiah 41:10 · 2 Chronicles 20:15
9After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was attacking Lachish, and all his forces were with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,
10Sennacherib king of Assyria says, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?
11Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria’?
RelatedIsaiah 36:18 · Psalms 71:11 · 2 Kings 19:10 · Matthew 27:43 · Psalms 22:8 · 2 Chronicles 32:15
12Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it’?
Related2 Chronicles 31:1 · 2 Kings 18:4 · Exodus 30:1-6 · 2 Kings 18:22 · Exodus 40:26-29 · 2 Chronicles 4:1
13Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?
14Who 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?
15Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”
16His servants spoke yet more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.
17He also wrote letters insulting the LORD, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”
Related2 Kings 19:12 · Isaiah 37:28-29 · Isaiah 37:14 · Revelation 13:6 · 2 Kings 19:28 · Isaiah 37:23-24
18They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might take the city.
19They 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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20Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
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21The LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword.
RelatedIsaiah 37:36-38 · Psalms 76:5 · Revelation 6:15-16 · Proverbs 11:2 · Matthew 13:49-50 · 2 Kings 19:35-37
22Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.
RelatedIsaiah 31:4-5 · Psalms 144:10 · John 16:13 · 2 Thessalonians 3:5 · Hosea 1:7 · Psalms 18:48-50
23Many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.
Related2 Chronicles 17:5 · Matthew 2:11 · 2 Chronicles 1:1 · 2 Chronicles 9:24 · 1 Kings 4:21 · 2 Chronicles 9:9-10
24In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to the LORD; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
25But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem.
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26However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the LORD’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
RelatedJeremiah 26:18-19 · 2 Chronicles 34:27-28 · 2 Chronicles 33:12 · James 4:10 · 2 Kings 20:16-19 · 2 Chronicles 33:19
27Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;
Related2 Chronicles 9:27 · 2 Chronicles 1:12 · Proverbs 10:22 · 1 Chronicles 27:25-31 · 2 Chronicles 17:5
28also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.
29Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions.
30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
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31However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
RelatedDeuteronomy 8:2 · Proverbs 17:3 · John 15:5 · 2 Chronicles 32:24 · Genesis 22:1 · Deuteronomy 8:16
32Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
33Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent to the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
RelatedProverbs 10:7 · Numbers 20:29 · 1 Kings 1:21 · Deuteronomy 34:8 · Genesis 50:10-11 · 1 Samuel 25:1
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