Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (2 Chronicles Chapter 1 to 36

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2 Chronicles 32:3 (NLT)

3 he consulted with his officials and military advisers, and they decided to stop the flow of the springs outside the city.

 

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2 Chronicles 32:4 (NLT)

4 They organized a huge work crew to stop the flow of the springs, cutting off the brook that ran through the fields. For they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come here and find plenty of water?”

 

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2 Chronicles 32:5 (NLT)

5 Then Hezekiah worked hard at repairing all the broken sections of the wall, erecting towers, and constructing a second wall outside the first. He also reinforced the supporting terraces in the City of David and manufactured large numbers of weapons and shields.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Chronicles 32:6 (NLT)

6 He appointed military officers over the people and assembled them before him in the square at the city gate. Then Hezekiah encouraged them by saying:

 

[Pastor Gary]

2 Chronicles 32:7 (NLT) - 7 “Be strong and courageous! Don’t be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria or his mighty army, for there is a power far greater on our side!

 

[Pastor Gary]

2 Chronicles 32:8 (NLT) - 8 He may have a great army, but they are merely men. We have the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles for us!” Hezekiah’s words greatly encouraged the people.

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:9 (NLT)
While King Sennacherib of Assyria was still besieging the town of Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah and all the people in the city:

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Chronicles 32:10 (NLT)

10 “This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: What are you trusting in that makes you think you can survive my siege of Jerusalem?

 

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2 Chronicles 32:11 (NLT)

11 Hezekiah has said, ‘The LORD our God will rescue us from the king of Assyria.’ Surely Hezekiah is misleading you, sentencing you to death by famine and thirst!

 

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2 Chronicles 32:12 (NLT)

12 Don’t you realize that Hezekiah is the very person who destroyed all the LORD’s shrines and altars? He commanded Judah and Jerusalem to worship only at the altar at the Temple and to offer sacrifices on it alone.

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Chronicles 32:13 (NLT)

13 “Surely you must realize what I and the other kings of Assyria before me have done to all the people of the earth! Were any of the gods of those nations able to rescue their people from my power?

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Chronicles 32:14 (NLT)

14 Which of their gods was able to rescue its people from the destructive power of my predecessors? What makes you think your God can rescue you from me?

 

[PaducahLuke]

2 Chronicles 32:15 (NLT)

15 Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you! Don’t let him fool you like this! I say it again—no god of any nation or kingdom has ever yet been able to rescue his people from me or my ancestors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!”

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:16 (NLT)
And Sennacherib's officers further mocked the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah, heaping insult upon insult.

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:17 (NLT)
The king also sent letters scoring the LORD, the God of Israel. He wrote, just as the gods of all the other nations failed to rescue their people from my power, so the God of Hezekiah will also fail."

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:18 (NLT)
The Assyrian officials who brought the letters shouted this in Hebrew to the people gathered on the walls of the city, trying to terrify them so that it would be easier to capture the city.

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:19 (NLT)
These officers talked about the God of Jerusalem as though he were one of the pagan gods, made by human hands.

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:20 (NLT)
And then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz, cried out in prayer to God in heaven.

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:21 (NLT)
And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib was forced to return home in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.

 

[Cosia]

2 Chronicles 32:22 (NLT)
That is how the LORD rescued Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the others who threatened them. So there was peace throughout the land.