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Hezekiah's Defense Against Sennacherib and Divine Deliverance

2 Chronicles 32:1-23

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Chapter 32
1 After these words and these truths, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah and encamped against the fortified cities and said to split them to him. 2 And Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that his face was for warfare against Jerusalem. 3 He consulted with his officials and his mighty men to stop up the waters of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him. 4 And they gathered a great people and stopped up all the springs and the flowing stream in the midst of the earth, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find many waters?" 5 He strengthened himself and built up all the broken wall. He went up on the towers and to the other outer wall and strengthened the terraces of the City of David. He also made spears in abundance and shields. 6 He stationed military commanders over the people. He gathered them to him at the gate of Rehob in the city and spoke to their hearts, saying: 7 Be strong and strengthen yourselves; do not fear and do not be shattered before the king of Assyria and before all the multitude that is with him, for there are more with us than with him. 8 With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles. And the people relied on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. 9 After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem—he, over Lachish and all his rule with him, over Hezekiah king of Judah and over all Judah that in Jerusalem—saying: 10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria: On what are you trusting while sitting in the siege in Jerusalem? 11 Is not Hezekiah inciting you to give yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, "The LORD our God will deliver us from the outstretched hand of the king of Assyria"? 12 Is it not he, Hezekiah, who removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn incense"? 13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands at all able to deliver their land from my hand? 14 Who among all the gods of the nations—these gods that my fathers devoted to destruction—has been able to deliver his people from my hand? Can your God deliver you from my hand? 15 And now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him incite you like this, and do not believe him. For no god of all the nations or kingdoms was able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. Indeed, your God will not deliver you from my hand. 16 And still his servants spoke against the LORD God and against Hezekiah his servant. 17 He also wrote letters to reproach the LORD God of Israel, saying about him, "Just as the gods of the nations of the lands did not deliver their people from the hand of their king, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand." 18 And they called out with a great voice in Judean to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to terrify them so that they might capture the city. 19 And they spoke against the gods of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands. 20 And King Hezekiah prayed and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz over this, and they cried out to the heavens. 21 And the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor, leader, and chief in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame to his land. He entered the house of his god, and those who came from his own bowels made him fall by the sword there. 22 And the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies and led them around about. 23 And many brought an offering to the LORD in Jerusalem and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, and he was exalted in the eyes of all the nations after that.