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Sennacherib's officers spoke even more things against the LORD God and his servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:16 Meaning and Commentary
2 Chronicles 32:16
And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. ] Than what is here recorded, as may be read in ( 2 Kings 18:1-19:37 ) , and ( Isaiah 36:1-22 ) .
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Who of all the gods of these nations that my predecessors destroyed has been able to save his people from me? How then can your god deliver you from my hand?
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Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my predecessors. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!”
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Sennacherib’s officers spoke further against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.
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The king also wrote letters ridiculing the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying this against him: “Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”
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Then they called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to capture the city.