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2 Chronicles, Chapter 32, verses 9-24

⁹ After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem while he was^g Lit againstbesieging Lachish with all his forces with him, against Hezekiah king of Judah and against all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying, ¹⁰ “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting that you are remaining in Jerusalem under siege? ¹¹ Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give yourselves over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the^h Lit palmhand of the king of Assyria”? ¹² Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and said to Judah andⁱ Lit Jerusalem, saying,Jerusalem, “You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall^j Lit offer up in smokeburn incense”? ¹³ Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands able at all to deliver their land from my hand? ¹⁴ Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed who could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand? ¹⁵ Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand?’”	9 Ki2 18:17 12 Ch2 31:1 13 Ki2 18:33-35 14 Isa 10:9-11 15 Exo 5:2 Isa 36:18-20 Dan 3:15
¹⁶ His servants spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ He also wrote letters to insult the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands^k Lit who havehave not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.” ¹⁸ They called this out with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, so that they might take the city. ¹⁹ They spoke^l Lit toof the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men’s hands.	17 Ch2 32:14 18 Ki2 18:28 19 Psa 115:4-8
²⁰ But King Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed about this and cried out to heaven. ²¹ And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned^m Lit in shame of facein shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword. ²² So 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, andⁿ Another reading is gave them restguided them on every side. ²³ And many were bringing gifts to the LORD at Jerusalem and choice presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations thereafter.	22 Isa 31:5 23 Sa2 8:10 Ch2 1:1
²⁴ In those days Hezekiah became^o Lit sick to the point of deathmortally ill; and he prayed to the LORD, and^p Lit Hethe LORD spoke to him and gave him a sign.	24 Ki2 20:1-11 Isa 38:1-8


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