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2 Chronicles 32:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Assyrian envoys weaponize theology and fear.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 32:9–19
Read 2 Chronicles 32:14 with 32:9–19. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Sennacherib's servants address Jerusalem, accuse Hezekiah of deception and starvation, misread his reform, compare the LORD to defeated gods, and speak against God and king.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 32:14 depends on 32:9–19; isolating “Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Assyrian envoys weaponize theology and fear.”
Read 2 Chronicles 32:9–19 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 32:9–19 forms the complete movement “Assyrian envoys weaponize theology and fear”: Sennacherib's servants address Jerusalem, accuse Hezekiah of deception and starvation, misread his reform, compare the LORD to defeated gods, and speak against God and king.
Verse 9. 9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
Verse 10. 10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
Verse 11. 11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Verse 12. 12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
Verse 13. 13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
Verse 14. 14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
Verse 15. 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?
Verse 16. 16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Verse 17. 17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
Verse 18. 18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
Verse 19. 19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 32:9–19, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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