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2 Chronicles 32:19 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 32 · verse 19
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.2 Chronicles 32:19 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 32:19 in context
17He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
18Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
19And 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.
20And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
21And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineH3389 →
- againstʻalabove, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applicationsH5921 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- spakedâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- handsyâda handH3027 →
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This story of the rage and blasphemy of Sennacherib, Hezekiah's prayer, and the deliverance of Jerusalem by the destruction of the Assyrian army, we had more at large in the book of Kings, 2 Kings 18 and 19. It is contracted here, yet large enough to show these three things: - I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-23