2 Chronicles 32:12

¹⁰ Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

¹¹ Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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?

¹³ Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

¹⁴ Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine 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
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
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2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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Exodus 30:1–6
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
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Isaiah 36:7
But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
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Deuteronomy 12:26–27
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
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1 Kings 7:48
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
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2 Chronicles 4:1
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
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Exodus 40:26–29
And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
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