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Passage Lookup: 2 Chronicles 32:9-19
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New International Version (1984 Edition)
2 Chronicles 32:9
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Later, when Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah king of Judah and for all the people of Judah who were there:
2 Chronicles 32:10
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"This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: On what are you basing your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
2 Chronicles 32:11
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When Hezekiah says, 'The LORD our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria,' he is misleading you, to let you die of hunger and thirst.
2 Chronicles 32:12
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Did not Hezekiah himself remove this god's high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?
2 Chronicles 32:13
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"Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:14
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Who of all the gods of these nations that my fathers destroyed has been able to save his people from me? How then can your god deliver you from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:15
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Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!"
2 Chronicles 32:16
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Sennacherib's officers spoke further against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:17
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The king also wrote letters insulting the LORD , the God of Israel, and saying this against him: "Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand."
2 Chronicles 32:18
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Then they called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to capture the city.
2 Chronicles 32:19
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They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the other peoples of the world-the work of men's hands.
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