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11 Is not Hezekiah inciting you to give yourselves over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, “Yahweh our God will deliver us from the [a]hand of the king of Assyria”? 12 (A)Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and said to Judah and [b]Jerusalem, “You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall offer offerings up in smoke”? 13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? (B)Were the gods of the nations of the lands able at all to deliver their land from my hand?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:11 Lit palm
  2. 2 Chronicles 32:12 Lit Jerusalem, saying,

11 When Hezekiah says, ‘The Lord our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria,’ he is misleading(A) you, to let you die of hunger and thirst. 12 Did not Hezekiah himself remove this god’s high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar(B) and burn sacrifices on it’?

13 “Do you not know what I and my predecessors 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?(C)

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