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Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Green's Literal Translation

2 Chronicles 32:16

And again his servants spoke against Jehovah God, and against His servant Hezekiah.

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.
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And his servants continued to speak against the Lord God, and against his servant Ezekias.
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 After this Sennacherib the king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (and he was by Lachish, and all his power with him) against Hezekiah the king of Judah, and against all Judah in Jerusalem, saying, 10 So says Sennacherib the king of Assyria, On what are you trusting that you sit under siege in Jerusalem? 11 Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you up to die by famine, and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria? 12 Has not Hezekiah himself removed His high places, and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn incense. 13 Do you not know what I have done, my fathers and I, to all the people of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands at all able to deliver their land out of my hand? 14 Who among all the gods of these nations whom my fathers have devoted to destruction is he who has been able to deliver his people out of my hand, that your god may be able to deliver you out of my hand? 15 And now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, nor believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand, from the hand of my fathers; also, surely your god shall not deliveryou from my hand. 16 And again his servants spoke against Jehovah God, and against His servant Hezekiah. 17 And he had written letters to blaspheme Jehovah, the God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah shall not deliver His peoplefrom my hand. 18 And they called with a great voice in Jewish, against the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to terrify them, that they might capture 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 he said, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then it will be, the company that is left shall escape.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Go back to your land and to your kindred and I will deal well with you.
Genesis 32:20
And you shall also say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will cover his face by the present, the one going before my face, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will lift up my face.
Psalms 112:5
Good is a man showing favor and lending; he will measure his matters with equity.
Proverbs 2:11
discretion shall keep you, understanding shall watch over you,
Isaiah 28:26
And He instructs him for the right; his God teaches him.
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

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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