2 Chronicles 32:12

Hezekiah

¹⁰ “This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?

¹¹ Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’

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’?

¹³ Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?

¹⁴ 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?

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: 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’?
KJV: Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
WEB: Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it’?
ASV: Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye burn incense?
DARBY: Has not the same Hezekiah removed his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem saying, Ye shall worship before *one* altar, and burn incense upon it?
BLB: is [it] not He [for whom] Hezekiah has taken away His high places and His altars, and has spoken to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, ‘You⁺ must worship before one altar, and on it burn incense’?

ÅB: Har ikke denne Hiskia tatt hans offerhauger og hans altere bort og sagt til Juda og Jerusalem: Bare foran ett alter skal dere tilbe, og på det skal dere brenne røkelse?
OTB: Har ikke den samme Hiskia tatt bort Hans høye steder og Hans altere, og sagt til Juda og Jerusalem, "Dere skal tilbe foran ett alter, og på det skal dere brenne røkelse"?
B1930: Har ikke denne Esekias tatt hans offerhauger og hans altere bort og sagt til Juda og Jerusalem: Bare foran ett alter skal I tilbede, og på det skal I brenne røkelse?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

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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2 Kings 18:4
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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Exodus 30:1–6
“You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense.
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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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Deuteronomy 12:26–27
But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.
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1 Kings 7:48
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
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2 Chronicles 4:1
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
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Exodus 40:26–29
Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,
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