These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 32
Tanakh 33 verses
- 1 After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib of came, and entered into , and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to make a breach therein for himself.
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And when saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against ,
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- 3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him.
- 4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying: ‘Why should the kings of come, and find much water?’
- 5 And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and strengthened Millo in the city of , and made weapons and shields in abundance.
- 6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying:
- 7 Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the of , nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a Greater with us than with him:
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with him is an arm of ; but with us is our to help us, and to fight our battles.’ And the people rested themselves upon the words of of .
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Jeremiah 17:5 2 Chronicles 20:17 2 Chronicles 13:12 Deuteronomy 20:4 2 Chronicles 20:15 2 Timothy 4:17 2 Chronicles 20:20 1 John 4:4 Deuteronomy 20:1 Proverbs 12:25 Isaiah 41:10 Acts 18:10 Psalm 46:11 Isaiah 36:18 2 Chronicles 14:11 Joshua 10:42 Psalm 46:7 Job 40:9 2 Chronicles 32:15 2 Timothy 4:22 Isaiah 8:10 -
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After this did Sennacherib of send his servants to —now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him—unto of , and unto all that were at , saying:
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Thus saith Sennacherib of : Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the siege in ?
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- 11 Doth not persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying: The our will deliver us out of the hand of the of ?
- 12 Hath not the same taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded and , saying: Ye shall before one , and upon it shall ye offer?
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Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the Elohims of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?
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Who was there among all the Elohims of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
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- 15 Now therefore let not beguile you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye him; for no of any nation or was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers; how much less shall your deliver you out of my hand?’
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And his servants spoke yet more against , and against His .
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- 17 He wrote also a letter, to taunt , the of , and to speak against Him, saying: ‘As the Elohims of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the of deliver His people out of my hand.’
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And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language unto the people of that were on the wall, to terrify them, and to affright them; that they might take the city.
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And they spoke of the of , as of the Elohims of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
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Isaiah 2:8 2 Kings 19:18 Job 15:25-26 Deuteronomy 4:28 Jeremiah 10:9 Psalm 73:8-11 Psalm 87:1-3 Hosea 8:5-6 Psalm 10:13-14 2 Chronicles 6:6 Isaiah 14:32 2 Chronicles 32:13-17 1 Samuel 17:36 Jeremiah 1:16 Isaiah 37:19 Jeremiah 10:3 Isaiah 44:16-20 Jeremiah 32:30 Deuteronomy 27:15 Psalm 132:13-14 Psalm 139:19-20 Psalm 135:15-18 Hebrews 12:22 Psalm 78:68 Psalm 115:4-8 Psalm 76:1-2 - 20 And the , and the the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to .
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And sent an , who cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the of . So he returned with shame of to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his , they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
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Psalm 76:5 Isaiah 33:10-12 Daniel 3:28 2 Kings 19:35-37 2 Kings 19:20 Isaiah 10:8 Job 9:4 Isaiah 42:8 Proverbs 16:18 Isaiah 10:33-34 Psalm 76:7 Isaiah 10:16-19 Psalm 76:12 Isaiah 37:21 Daniel 6:22 Isaiah 36:9 Psalm 18:50 Acts 12:23 2 Samuel 24:16 Psalm 132:18 Proverbs 11:2 Matthew 13:49-50 Isaiah 29:5-8 Revelation 6:15-16 Isaiah 37:36-38 Isaiah 30:30-33 Isaiah 17:12-14 Revelation 19:17-18 - 22 Thus saved and the inhabitants of from the hand of Sennacherib the of , and from the hand of all, and guided them on every side.
- 23 And many brought gifts unto to , and precious things to of ; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
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In those days was sick even unto death; and he prayed unto ; and He spoke unto him, and gave him a sign.
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But rendered not according to the benefit done unto him; for his was lifted up; therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon and .
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2 Chronicles 26:16 2 Chronicles 24:18 2 Chronicles 32:31 2 Kings 14:10 2 Samuel 24:10-17 1 Chronicles 21:12-17 2 Chronicles 19:2 Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Deuteronomy 8:17 Deuteronomy 32:6 2 Chronicles 25:19 2 Corinthians 12:7 1 Chronicles 21:1 Ezekiel 28:17 Daniel 5:20 Psalm 116:12-13 1 Peter 5:5-6 Ezekiel 28:2 1 Timothy 3:6 Luke 17:17-18 2 Kings 20:13 2 Samuel 24:1 Hosea 14:2 Habakkuk 2:4 Daniel 5:23 Ezekiel 28:5 - 26 Notwithstanding humbled himself for the pride of his , both he and the inhabitants of , so that the wrath of came not upon them in the days of .
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And had exceeding much riches and ; and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;
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store-houses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and flocks in folds.
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- 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for had given him very much substance.
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This same also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of . And prospered in all his works.
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Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of , who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, left him, to try him, that He might all that was in his .
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Deuteronomy 8:2 Genesis 22:1 2 Chronicles 32:24 Deuteronomy 8:16 Psalm 139:1-2 2 Kings 20:8-13 Psalm 27:9 Job 1:11-12 Isaiah 38:7-8 Psalm 139:23-24 Psalm 119:116-117 Deuteronomy 13:3 Psalm 51:11-12 Job 2:3-6 Isaiah 39:1-8 John 15:5 Judges 16:20 Malachi 3:2-3 James 1:13 Zechariah 13:9 Proverbs 17:3 1 Peter 1:7 -
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Now the rest of the acts of , and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the of the the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of and .
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- 33 And slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the sepulchres of the sons of ; and all and the inhabitants of did him at his death. And his son reigned in his stead.