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2 Chronicles 32:29 Explained in Context
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Verse 29. 29Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Wealth, waterworks, and Babylonian envoys test Hezekiah.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 32:27–31
Read 2 Chronicles 32:29 with 32:27–31. 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: Hezekiah amasses treasure, storehouses, herds, cities, and waterworks; prosperity accompanies his works, but Babylonian envoys investigating the sign become a test in which God leaves him to reveal his heart.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 32:29 depends on 32:27–31; isolating “Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Wealth, waterworks, and Babylonian envoys test Hezekiah.”
Read 2 Chronicles 32:27–31 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 32:27–31 forms the complete movement “Wealth, waterworks, and Babylonian envoys test Hezekiah”: Hezekiah amasses treasure, storehouses, herds, cities, and waterworks; prosperity accompanies his works, but Babylonian envoys investigating the sign become a test in which God leaves him to reveal his heart.
Verse 27. 27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
Verse 28. 28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
Verse 29. 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
Verse 30. 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Verse 31. 31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
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Biblical text
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