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2 Chronicles 32:11-13
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 32:11-13
New English Translation
11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power[a] of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you, and you will die of hunger and thirst![b] 12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated[c] the Lord’s[d] high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.” 13 Are you not aware of what I and my predecessors[e] have done to all the nations of the surrounding lands? Have the gods of the surrounding lands actually been able to rescue their lands from my power?[f]
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- 2 Chronicles 32:11 tn Heb “hand.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:11 tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’
- 2 Chronicles 32:12 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.
- 2 Chronicles 32:12 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Chronicles 32:13 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 14, 15), but in this context the term does not necessarily refer to Sennacherib’s ancestors, but to his predecessors on the Assyrian throne.
- 2 Chronicles 32:13 tn Heb “hand.”
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