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Thursday, September 11th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Brenton's Septuagint

2 Chronicles 32:16

And his servants continued to speak against the Lord God, and against his servant Ezekias.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Infidelity;   Self-Exaltation;   Sennacherib;   Siege;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blasphemy-Profanity;   Hezekiah;   Profanity;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Sennacherib;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sennacherib ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hezekiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His servants said more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
Hebrew Names Version
His servants spoke yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hizkiyahu.
King James Version
And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
English Standard Version
And his servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
New Century Version
Sennacherib's officers said worse things against the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.
New English Translation
Sennacherib's servants further insulted the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.
Amplified Bible
And his servants said even more against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
New American Standard Bible
His servants spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
World English Bible
His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And his seruants spake yet more against the Lorde God, and against his seruant Hezekiah.
Legacy Standard Bible
His servants spoke further against Yahweh God and against His servant Hezekiah.
Berean Standard Bible
And the servants of Sennacherib spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
Contemporary English Version
The Assyrian officials said terrible things about the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.
Complete Jewish Bible
His envoys kept on speaking against Adonai , God; and against his servant Hizkiyahu.
Darby Translation
And his servants spoke yet more against Jehovah, the [true] God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Easy-to-Read Version
The officers of the king of Assyria said worse things against the Lord God and against Hezekiah, God's servant.
George Lamsa Translation
And his servants spoke these things before the LORD God of Israel and in the presence of his servant Hezekiah.
Good News Translation
The Assyrian officials said even worse things about the Lord God and Hezekiah, the Lord 's servant.
Lexham English Bible
And still more his servants said against Yahweh God and against Hezekiah his servant.
Literal Translation
And again his servants spoke against Jehovah God, and against His servant Hezekiah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His seruautes also spake yet more against the LORDE God, and agaynst his seruaunt Ezechias.
American Standard Version
And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Bible in Basic English
And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yet mo thinges did his seruauntes speake against the Lorde God, and against his seruaunt Hezekia.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God, and against His servant Hezekiah.
King James Version (1611)
And his seruants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his seruant Hezekiah.
English Revised Version
And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also hise seruauntis spaken many othir thingis ayenus the Lord God, and ayens Ezechie, his seruaunte.
Update Bible Version
And his slaves spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his slave Hezekiah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And his servants spoke yet [more] against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
New King James Version
Furthermore, his servants spoke against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.
New Living Translation
And Sennacherib's officers further mocked the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah, heaping insult upon insult.
New Life Bible
Sennacherib's men said still more against the Lord God and against His servant Hezekiah.
New Revised Standard
His servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, yet more, spake his servants, against Yahweh, God, - and against Hezekiah his servant.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Ezechias.
Revised Standard Version
And his servants said still more against the Lord GOD and against his servant Hezeki'ah.
Young's Literal Translation
And again have his servants spoken against Jehovah God, and against Hezekiah His servant,
THE MESSAGE
The messengers felt free to throw in their personal comments, putting down both God and God's servant Hezekiah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
His servants spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.

Contextual Overview

9 And afterward Sennacherim king of the Assyrians sent his servants to Jerusalem; and he went himself against Lachis, and all his army with him, and sent to Ezekias king of Juda, and to all Juda that was in Jerusalem, saying, 10 Thus says Sennacherim king of the Assyrians, On what do ye trust, that ye will remain in the siege in Jerusalem? 11 Does not Ezekias deceive you, to deliver you to death and famine and thirst, saying, The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 12 Is not this Ezekias who has taken down his altars and his high places and has spoken to Juda and the dwellers in Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before this altar and burn incense upon it? 13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to all the nations of the countries? Could the gods of the nations of all the earth at all rescue their people out of my hand? 14 Who is there among all the gods of those nations whom my fathers utterly destroyed, worthy of trust? Could they deliver their people out of my hand, that your God should deliver you out of my hand? 15 Now then, let not Ezekias deceive you, and let him not make you thus confident, and believe him not: for no god of any kingdom or nation is at all able to deliver his people out of my hand, or the hand of my fathers: therefore your God shall not deliver you out of my hand. 16 And his servants continued to speak against the Lord God, and against his servant Ezekias. 17 And he wrote a letter to reproach the Lord God of Israel, and spoke concerning him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the earth have not delivered their people out of my hand, so the God of Ezekias shall by no means deliver his people out of my hand. 18 And he cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem on the wall, calling them to assist them, and pull down the walls, that they might take the city.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

yet: Job 15:25, Job 15:26, Psalms 73:9

against: John 15:21

Reciprocal: Psalms 31:18 - speak

Cross-References

Genesis 32:8
And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and smite it, the other camp shall be in safety.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, God of my father Abraam, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, thou art he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of thy birth, and I will do thee good.
Genesis 32:20
and ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will behold his face, for peradventure he will accept me.
Psalms 112:5
The good man is he that pities and lends: he will direct his affairs with judgment.
Proverbs 2:11
good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee;
Isaiah 28:26
So thou shalt be chastened by the judgement of thy God, and shalt rejoice.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. Than what is here recorded, as may be read in 2 Kings 18:1, and Isaiah 36:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (2 Kings 18:17-19; where see the notes).

2 Chronicles 32:10

In the siege - Perhaps “in straitness” (compare Jeremiah 19:9). Jerusalem is thought by some to have been not so much besieged at this time, as distressed and straitened for supplies, because the Assyrians were masters of the open country.

2 Chronicles 32:13

fathers - i. e. “predecessors.” Sennacherib really belonged to a dynasty that had only furnished one king before himself.

2 Chronicles 32:22

Guided them ... - A slight alteration of the existing text gives the sense - “gave them rest round about;” a common expression in Chronicles 2 Chronicles 15:15; 2 Chronicles 20:30.


 
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