2 Kings 18:33
31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
35 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
- KJV
- Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- WEB
- Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- ASV
- Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- DARBY
- Have any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- BLB
- Have any gods of the nations ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
- ÅB
- Har vel noen av folkenes guder reddet sitt land av kongen i Assyrias hånd?
- OTB
- Har noen av gudene til nasjonene vært i stand til å redde sitt land fra kongen av Assyrias hånd?
- B1930
- Har vel nogen av folkenes guder reddet sitt land av kongen i Assyrias hånd?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 10:10–11
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:14–17
Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
Read in context2 Kings 19:17–18
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:19
They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
Read in contextIsaiah 36:18–20
Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Read in context2 Kings 19:12–13
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
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