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2 Kings 18:22

HezekiahJudahJerusalem
Doubt

20 You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

21 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

23 Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

24 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
KJV
But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
WEB
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
ASV
But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
DARBY
And if ye say to me, We rely upon Jehovah our God: is it not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
BLB
But if you⁺ say to me, ‘In YHWH our God we trust,’ is [it] not He [for] whom His high places and His altars Hezekiah has taken away, and he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You⁺ shall bow low before this altar in Jerusalem’?
ÅB
Men sier dere til meg: Vi setter vår lit til Herren vår Gud - er det da ikke hans offerhauger og altere Hiskia har tatt bort, da han sa til Juda og Jerusalem: For dette alter skal dere tilbe, her i Jerusalem?
OTB
Men hvis du sier til meg, "Vi har stolt på Herren vår Gud," er det ikke Han hvis offerhauger og altere Hiskia har tatt bort, og har sagt til Juda og Jerusalem, “Dere skal tilbe foran dette alteret i Jerusalem”?
B1930
Men sier I til mig: Vi setter vår lit til Herren vår Gud - er det da ikke hans offerhauger og altere Esekias har tatt bort, da han sa til Juda og Jerusalem: For dette alter skal I tilbede, her i Jerusalem?

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Cross references

  • 2 Chronicles 31:1

    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

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  • Daniel 3:15

    Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

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  • Isaiah 36:7

    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

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  • 2 Chronicles 32:12

    Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?

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  • 2 Kings 18:4–5

    He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

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  • 1 Corinthians 2:15

    The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.

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  • Matthew 27:43

    He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

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