2 Chronicles 32 GW
2 Chronicles Chapter 32 GW Bible Verse Images
GOD’S WORD® Terms of Use
Bible verse pictures were created based on verses from GOD’S WORD® Translation (GW). Images were generated with permission from God’s Word to the Nations Mission Society.
License Details
- Title: GOD’S WORD®
- Creator: godsword.org
- Source: Digital Bible Library
- License: Copyright by God’s Word to the Nations Mission Society
- Usage: Social sharing and ministry usage is permitted and encouraged according to the terms of use below.
Terms of Use: All Scripture marked with the designation “GW” is taken from GOD’S WORD®.
© 1995, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020 by God’s Word to the Nations Mission Society. Used by permission.
Up to 250 Scripture verses may be quoted in any form (printed, written, visual, electronic, or audio) without written permission, provided that no more than half of any one book of the Bible is quoted, and the verses quoted do not amount to 25 percent of the text of the product in which they are quoted. For quotations over 250 verses and/or additional questions about the terms of use, please contact godsword.org directly.
Credits: In addition, we would like to give very special thanks to eBible.org for making GOD’S WORD® available in MySQL format.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
After everything Hezekiah had done so faithfully, King Sennacherib of Assyria came to invade Judah. He set up camp to attack the fortified cities. He intended to conquer them himself.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to wage war against Jerusalem,
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
he, his officers, and his military staff made plans to stop the water from flowing out of the springs outside the city. They helped him do it.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
A large crowd gathered as they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land. They said, “Why should the kings of Assyria find plenty of water?”
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Hezekiah worked hard. He rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall, made the towers taller, built another wall outside the city wall, strengthened the Millo in the City of David, and made plenty of weapons and shields.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
He appointed military commanders over the troops and gathered the commanders in the square by the city gate. He spoke these words of encouragement:
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be frightened or terrified by the king of Assyria or the crowd with him. Someone greater is on our side.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
The king of Assyria has human power on his side, but the Lord our God is on our side to help us and fight our battles.” So the people were encouraged by what King Hezekiah of Judah said.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
After this, while King Sennacherib of Assyria and all his royal forces were attacking Lachish, he sent his officers to King Hezekiah of Judah and to all of the people in Judah who were in Jerusalem to say:
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: Why are you so confident as you live in Jerusalem while it is blockaded?
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you and abandoning you to die from hunger and thirst when he says, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the king of Assyria?’
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Isn’t this the same Hezekiah who got rid of the Lord’s places of worship and altars and told Judah and Jerusalem, ‘Worship and sacrifice at one altar?’
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Don’t you know what I and my predecessors have done to the people of all other countries? Were any of the gods of these other nations ever able to rescue their countries from me?
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Were the gods of these nations able to rescue their people from my control? My predecessors claimed and destroyed those nations. Is your God able to rescue you from my control?
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you like this. Don’t believe him. No god of any nation or kingdom could save his people from me or my ancestors. Certainly, your God will not rescue you from me!”
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Sennacherib’s officers said more against the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Sennacherib wrote letters cursing the Lord God of Israel. These letters said, “As the gods of the nations in other countries couldn’t rescue their people from me, Hezekiah’s God cannot rescue his people from me.”
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Sennacherib’s officers shouted loudly in the Judean language to the troops who were on the wall of Jerusalem. They tried to frighten and terrify the troops so that they could capture the city.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the gods made by human hands and worshiped by the people in other countries.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, prayed about this and called to heaven.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
The Lord sent an angel who exterminated all the soldiers, officials, and commanders in the Assyrian king’s camp. Humiliated, Sennacherib returned to his own country. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him with a sword.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem from King Sennacherib of Assyria and from everyone else. The Lord gave them peace with all their neighbors.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Many people still went to Jerusalem to bring gifts to the Lord and expensive presents to King Hezekiah of Judah. From then on, he was considered important by all the nations.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
In those days Hezekiah became sick and was about to die. He prayed to the Lord, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
But Hezekiah was conceited, so he didn’t repay the Lord for his kindness. The Lord became angry with him, with Judah, and with Jerusalem.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem humbled themselves when they realized they had become conceited. So the Lord didn’t vent his anger on them during Hezekiah’s time.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Hezekiah became richer and was highly honored. He prepared storerooms for himself to hold silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuables.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
He made sheds to store his harvests of grain, new wine, and fresh olive oil, and he made barns for all his cattle and stalls for his flocks.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
He made cities for himself because he had many sheep and cattle. God had given him a lot of property.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Hezekiah was the one who stopped the water from flowing from the upper outlet of Gihon. He channeled the water directly underground to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
When the leaders of Babylon sent ambassadors to ask him about the miraculous sign that had happened in the land, God left him. God did this to test him, to find out everything that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Everything else about Hezekiah, including his devotion to God, is written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, and in the records of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Square Portrait Landscape 4K UHD
Hezekiah lay down in death with his ancestors. He was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. When Hezekiah died, all of Judah and the people in Jerusalem honored him. His son Manasseh succeeded him as king.
Available Bible Translations
2 Chronicles 32 (ASV) »
2 Chronicles 32 (KJV) »
2 Chronicles 32 (BSB) »
2 Chronicles 32 (WEB) »
2 Chroniques 32 (LSG) »
2 Chronik 32 (LUTH1912) »
2 इतिहास 32 (HINIRV) »
2 ਇਤਿਹਾਸ 32 (PANIRV) »
2 বংশাৱলি 32 (BENIRV) »
2 நாளாகமம் 32 (TAMIRV) »
2 इतिहास 32 (MARIRV) »
2 దినవృత్తాంతాలు 32 (TELIRV) »
2 કાળવૃતાંત 32 (GUJIRV) »
2 ಪೂರ್ವಕಾಲವೃತ್ತಾಂತ 32 (KANIRV) »
٢ أخبار 32 (AVD) »
דברי הימים ב 32 (HEB) »
2 Crônicas 32 (BSL) »
2 Sử Ký 32 (VIE) »
2 Crónicas 32 (RVA) »
2 Cronache 32 (RIV) »
历 代 志 下 32 (CUVS) »
歷 代 志 下 32 (CUVT) »
2 Kronikave 32 (ALB) »
2 Krönikeboken 32 (SV1917) »
2 Паралипоменон 32 (RUSV) »
2 хроніки 32 (UKR) »
2 Krónika 32 (KAR) »
2 Летописи 32 (BULG) »
歴代志下 32 (JPN) »
2 Krønikebok 32 (NORSK) »