2 Chronicles 32:15-19 sits inside this longer paragraph.
9After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power 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, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’ 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?’ 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 the 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 Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah. 17He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, 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.” 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.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 18, 19 When man hath prosperity, he swelleth in pride, and…
When man hath prosperity, he swelleth in pride, and thinketh himself able to resist and overcome even God himself.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv15–19 2Ch 32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you,…
2Ch 32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
Ver. 15. Now therefore let not Hezekiah.] See 2Ki 18:29.
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How much less shall your God.] Prodigious blasphemy! And was not that of John Hunt, a a Popish pamphleteer, every whit as bad, when he said, The God of the Protestants is the most uncivil and evil mannered God of all those who have borne the names of gods upon the earth; yea, worse than Pan, god of the clowns, which can endure no ceremonies nor good manners at all! {a}
{a} Humble Appeal to King James, chap. 6.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v15 Seeing I have destroyed so many nations, and some…
Seeing I have destroyed so many nations, and some of them stronger than you, in spite of all their gods, it is not probable that your God should defend you, which none of the rest could do for their people.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv16–19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem,.... The…
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem,.... The only living and true God, whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem professed to be their God, and who was worshipped by them in the temple there:
as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man; they made no difference between the one and the other, but spoke as freely and as contemptibly of the one as of the other, see Isa 36:19.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v17 Verse 17. Wrote also letters] See 2Kg 19:9; 2Kg…
Verse 17. Wrote also letters] See 2Kg 19:9; 2Kg 19:14.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv15, 18 2Ch 32:15. How much less shall your God deliver…
2Ch 32:15. How much less shall your God deliver you — Seeing I have destroyed so many nations, and some of them stronger than you, in spite of all their gods, it is not probable that your God should defend you?
inasmuch as none of the others could defend their worshippers.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v17 He (Sennacherib) wrote, when he was going towards Egypt.…
He (Sennacherib) wrote, when he was going towards Egypt. Both master and servant employed the same fallacious argument; as if the true God and idols were all upon a level, and as if past success were a sure proof of future victories, v. 19. H.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v18 they cried with a loud voice . . .…
they cried with a loud voice . . . unto the people of Jerusalem . . . on the wall--It appears that the wall on the west side of the city reached as far to the side of the uppermost pool of Gihon at that time as it does now, if not farther; and the wall was so close to that pool that those sent to negotiate with the Assyrian general answered him in their own tongue (see on Kg2 18:27).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv15, 17, 18, 19 15. neither yet believe him] R.V. neither believe ye…
15. neither yet believe him] R.V. neither believe ye him.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv15–19 (15) Neither yet believe him.—And believe him not.
(15) Neither yet believe him.—And believe him not.
How much less . . . deliver you.—Rather, much less will your gods deliver you; or, much more will your gods not deliver you. (Comp. Isa_37:10-11.) According to ancient conceptions the gods of strong nations were strong gods. Now the Assyrians had vanquished stronger nations than Judah, and therefore, as they ignorantly supposed, stronger deities than the God of Judah. (Some Hebrew MSS. and all the versions have the verb in the singular, which gives the sense, “much less will your god deliver you.”)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv15–19 The urgency of Sennacherib"s appeal to the people was…
The urgency of Sennacherib"s appeal to the people was of course his way of trying to save work of actual siege, fighting, etc., to himself and his army. The how much less of the message of Sennacherib probably meant that his estimate of the your God i.e. the God of Israel, was measured partly by the comparative smallness and unwarlike character of the nation of Judah, when set side by side with the great heathen nations, and partly by the spiritual and invisible character and being of God, little intelligible to such a one as Sennacherib.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv16, 18 out of my hand
out of my hand
Here "hand" represents power or control. AT: "from my power" or "from me" (See: Metonymy)
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translationWords
Sennacherib
servant
Hezekiah
mock
Israel
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