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Geneva Bible

2 Chronicles 32:19

Thus they spake against the God of Ierusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, euen the workes of mans hands,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   Infidelity;   Self-Exaltation;   Sennacherib;   Siege;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hezekiah;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Sennacherib;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sennacherib ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hezekiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They spoke against the God of Jerusalem like they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which were made by human hands.
Hebrew Names Version
They spoke of the God of Yerushalayim, as of the gods of the peoples of the eretz, which are the work of men's hands.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
New Century Version
They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as though he were like the gods the people of the world worshiped, which are made by human hands.
New English Translation
They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.
Amplified Bible
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as [they spoke of] the gods of the peoples of the earth, [which are only] the work of the hands of men.
New American Standard Bible
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they did against the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of human hands.
World English Bible
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.
Berean Standard Bible
They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth-the work of human hands.
Contemporary English Version
The officials talked about the Lord God as if he were nothing but an ordinary god or an idol that someone had made.
Complete Jewish Bible
They spoke about the God of Yerushalayim in the same way as about the gods of the other peoples of the earth, which are merely human artifacts.
Darby Translation
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of man's hand.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then they insulted the God of Jerusalem just as they had insulted all the gods of the people from other nations—even though those gods are only things people made with their hands.
George Lamsa Translation
And they spoke in the name of the gods of the people of the earth and also in the name of the God of Jerusalem, imploring him to reward them according to the work of their hands.
Good News Translation
They talked about the God of Jerusalem in the same way that they talked about the gods of the other peoples, idols made by human hands.
Lexham English Bible
And they spoke about the God of Jerusalem as about the gods of the peoples of the earth, the works of the hands of humankind.
Literal Translation
And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the land, the work of the hands of man.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they spake agaynst the God off Ierusalem, euen as agaynst the goddes off the nacions vpon earth, which were but the workes of mens hondes.
American Standard Version
And they spake of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
Bible in Basic English
Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they spake against the God of Hierusalem, as against the gods of the nations of the earth, [whiche were] the workes of the handes of men.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
King James Version (1611)
And they spake against the God of Ierusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth which were the worke of the hands of man.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, even as against the gods of the nations of the earth, the works of the hands of men.
English Revised Version
And they spake of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he spake ayens God of Israel, as ayens the goddis of the puplis of erthe, the werkis of mennus hondis.
Update Bible Version
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of man's hands.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, the work of the hands of man.
New King James Version
And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth--the work of men's hands.
New Living Translation
These officers talked about the God of Jerusalem as though he were one of the pagan gods, made by human hands.
New Life Bible
They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if He were one of the gods of the people of the earth, which were made by the hands of men.
New Revised Standard
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as if he were like the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of human hands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, - as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of the hands of men.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
Young's Literal Translation
and they speak against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the land -- work of the hands of man.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.

Contextual Overview

9 After this, did Saneherib King of Asshur send his seruants to Ierusalem (while he was against Lachish, and all his dominion with him) vnto Hezekiah King of Iudah and vnto all Iudah that were at Ierusalem, saying, 10 Thus saith Saneherib the King of Asshur, Wherein doe ye trust, that ye will remaine in Ierusalem, during the siege? 11 Doeth not Hezekiah entice you to giue ouer your selues vnto death by famine and by thirst, saying, The Lorde our God shall deliuer vs out of the hande of the King of Asshur? 12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his hie places and his altars, and commaunded Iudah and Ierusalem, saying, Ye shall worshippe before one altar, and burne incense vpon it? 13 Knowe ye not what I and my fathers haue done vnto all the people of other countreyes? were the gods of the nations of other landes able to deliuer their land out of mine hande? 14 Who is he of al the gods of those natios (that my fathers haue destroied) that could deliuer his people out of mine hande? that your God should be able to deliuer you out of mine hand? 15 Nowe therefore let not Hezekiah deceiue you, nor seduce you after this sort, neither beleeue ye him: for none of all the gods of any nation or kingdome was able to deliuer his people out of mine hande and out of the hande of my fathers: howe much lesse shall your gods deliuer you out of mine hande? 16 And his seruants spake yet more against the Lorde God, and against his seruant Hezekiah. 17 He wrote also letters, blaspheming the Lorde God of Israel and speaking against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other countreies could not deliuer their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliuer his people out of mine hande. 18 Then they cryed with a loude voyce in the Iewes speach vnto the people of Ierusalem that were on the wall, to feare them and to astonish them, that they might take the citie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spake: 2 Chronicles 32:13-17, 1 Samuel 17:36, Job 15:25, Job 15:26, Psalms 10:13, Psalms 10:14, Psalms 73:8-11, Psalms 139:19, Psalms 139:20

the God: 2 Chronicles 6:6, Psalms 76:1, Psalms 76:2, Psalms 78:68, Psalms 87:1-3, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, Isaiah 14:32, Hebrews 12:22

the work: Deuteronomy 4:28, Deuteronomy 27:15, 2 Kings 19:18, Psalms 135:15-18, Isaiah 2:8, Isaiah 37:19, Isaiah 44:16-20, Jeremiah 1:16, Jeremiah 10:3, Jeremiah 10:9, Jeremiah 32:30, Hosea 8:5, Hosea 8:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:2 - Who 1 Kings 18:37 - Hear me 2 Kings 18:33 - Hath any 2 Kings 19:37 - Nisroch 2 Chronicles 33:4 - In Jerusalem Ezra 7:19 - the God of Jerusalem Psalms 78:19 - Yea Isaiah 10:10 - the kingdoms Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:38 - his god Ezekiel 35:13 - with Nahum 2:13 - the voice 1 Thessalonians 5:3 - then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Isaiah 36:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (2 Kings 18:17-19; where see the notes).

2 Chronicles 32:10

In the siege - Perhaps “in straitness” (compare Jeremiah 19:9). Jerusalem is thought by some to have been not so much besieged at this time, as distressed and straitened for supplies, because the Assyrians were masters of the open country.

2 Chronicles 32:13

fathers - i. e. “predecessors.” Sennacherib really belonged to a dynasty that had only furnished one king before himself.

2 Chronicles 32:22

Guided them ... - A slight alteration of the existing text gives the sense - “gave them rest round about;” a common expression in Chronicles 2 Chronicles 15:15; 2 Chronicles 20:30.


 
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