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THE MESSAGE

2 Chronicles 32:16

The messengers felt free to throw in their personal comments, putting down both God and God's servant Hezekiah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

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®
His servants said more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
Hebrew Names Version
His servants spoke yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hizkiyahu.
King James Version
And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
English Standard Version
And his servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
New Century Version
Sennacherib's officers said worse things against the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.
New English Translation
Sennacherib's servants further insulted the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.
Amplified Bible
And his servants said even more against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
New American Standard Bible
His servants spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
World English Bible
His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And his seruants spake yet more against the Lorde God, and against his seruant Hezekiah.
Legacy Standard Bible
His servants spoke further against Yahweh God and against His servant Hezekiah.
Berean Standard Bible
And the servants of Sennacherib spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
Contemporary English Version
The Assyrian officials said terrible things about the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.
Complete Jewish Bible
His envoys kept on speaking against Adonai , God; and against his servant Hizkiyahu.
Darby Translation
And his servants spoke yet more against Jehovah, the [true] God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Easy-to-Read Version
The officers of the king of Assyria said worse things against the Lord God and against Hezekiah, God's servant.
George Lamsa Translation
And his servants spoke these things before the LORD God of Israel and in the presence of his servant Hezekiah.
Good News Translation
The Assyrian officials said even worse things about the Lord God and Hezekiah, the Lord 's servant.
Lexham English Bible
And still more his servants said against Yahweh God and against Hezekiah his servant.
Literal Translation
And again his servants spoke against Jehovah God, and against His servant Hezekiah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His seruautes also spake yet more against the LORDE God, and agaynst his seruaunt Ezechias.
American Standard Version
And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Bible in Basic English
And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yet mo thinges did his seruauntes speake against the Lorde God, and against his seruaunt Hezekia.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God, and against His servant Hezekiah.
King James Version (1611)
And his seruants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his seruant Hezekiah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And his servants continued to speak against the Lord God, and against his servant Ezekias.
English Revised Version
And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also hise seruauntis spaken many othir thingis ayenus the Lord God, and ayens Ezechie, his seruaunte.
Update Bible Version
And his slaves spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his slave Hezekiah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And his servants spoke yet [more] against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
New King James Version
Furthermore, his servants spoke against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
New Living Translation
And Sennacherib's officers further mocked the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah, heaping insult upon insult.
New Life Bible
Sennacherib's men said still more against the Lord God and against His servant Hezekiah.
New Revised Standard
His servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, yet more, spake his servants, against Yahweh, God, - and against Hezekiah his servant.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Ezechias.
Revised Standard Version
And his servants said still more against the Lord GOD and against his servant Hezeki'ah.
Young's Literal Translation
And again have his servants spoken against Jehovah God, and against Hezekiah His servant,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
His servants spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.

Contextual Overview

9Later on, Sennacherib, who had set up camp a few miles away at Lachish, sent messengers to Jerusalem, addressing Judah through Hezekiah: "A proclamation of Sennacherib king of Assyria: You poor people—do you think you're safe in that so-called fortress of Jerusalem? You're sitting ducks. Do you think Hezekiah will save you? Don't be stupid—Hezekiah has fed you a pack of lies. When he says, ‘ God will save us from the power of the king of Assyria,' he's lying—you're all going to end up dead. Wasn't it Hezekiah who cleared out all the neighborhood worship shrines and told you, ‘There is only one legitimate place to worship'? Do you have any idea what I and my ancestors have done to all the countries around here? Has there been a single god anywhere strong enough to stand up against me? Can you name one god among all the nations that either I or my ancestors have ravaged that so much as lifted a finger against me? So what makes you think you'll make out any better with your god? Don't let Hezekiah fool you; don't let him get by with his barefaced lies; don't trust him. No god of any country or kingdom ever has been one bit of help against me or my ancestors—what kind of odds does that give your god?" 16 The messengers felt free to throw in their personal comments, putting down both God and God's servant Hezekiah. 17 Sennacherib continued to send letters insulting the God of Israel: "The gods of the nations were powerless to help their people; the god of Hezekiah is no better, probably worse." 18The messengers would come up to the wall of Jerusalem and shout up to the people standing on the wall, shouting their propaganda in Hebrew, trying to scare them into demoralized submission. They contemptuously lumped the God of Jerusalem in with the handmade gods of other peoples. 20King Hezekiah, joined by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz, responded by praying, calling up to heaven. God answered by sending an angel who wiped out everyone in the Assyrian camp, both warriors and officers. Sennacherib was forced to return home in disgrace, tail between his legs. When he went into the temple of his god, his own sons killed him. 22 God saved Hezekiah and the citizens of Jerusalem from Sennacherib king of Assyria and everyone else. And he continued to take good care of them. People streamed into Jerusalem bringing offerings for the worship of God and expensive presents to Hezekiah king of Judah. All the surrounding nations were impressed—Hezekiah's stock soared.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

yet: Job 15:25, Job 15:26, Psalms 73:9

against: John 15:21

Reciprocal: Psalms 31:18 - speak

Cross-References

Genesis 32:9
And then Jacob prayed, "God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, God who told me, ‘Go back to your parents' homeland and I'll treat you well.' I don't deserve all the love and loyalty you've shown me. When I left here and crossed the Jordan I only had the clothes on my back, and now look at me—two camps! Save me, please, from the violence of my brother, my angry brother! I'm afraid he'll come and attack us all, me, the mothers and the children. You yourself said, ‘I will treat you well; I'll make your descendants like the sands of the sea, far too many to count.'"
Matthew 10:16
"Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning you. You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, and Isaiah 36:1.

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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