2 Chronicles 32:17

He wrote also sefarim to blaspheme Hashem Elohei Yisroel, and to speak against Him, saying, As the elohei goyei ha'aratzot have not saved their people out of mine yad, so shall not the Elohei Chizkiyahu (Yechizkiyahu) save his people out of mine yad.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.

In Context

16And his avadim spoke yet more against Hashem HaElohim, and against His eved Chizkiyahu (Yechizkiyahu).

18Then they cried with a kol gadol in the language of the Yehudim unto the Am Yerushalayim that were on the chomah, to frighten them, and to terrorize them, that they might capture the Ir.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:36Thy eved slaughtered both the ari and the dov: and this Pelishti hearel (uncircumcised Philistine) shall be as one of them, seeing he hath charaf (taunted, defied, disgraced) the maarkhot Elohim Chayyim.

2 Kings 19:11Hinei, thou hast heard what the melachim of Ashur have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be saved?

2 Kings 19:14And Chizkiyah received the sefarim (letters) from the yad hamalachim, and read it; and Chizkiyah went up into the Beis Hashem, and spread it before Hashem.

2 Kings 19:28Because thy rage against Me 1 and thy insolence is come up into Mine ears, 1 therefore I will put My hook in thy nose, 1 and My Bit in thy sfatayim (lips), 1 and I will turn thee back by the derech 1 by which thou camest.

Isaiah 10:15Shall the garzen (axe) boast itself against Him that cuts therewith? 1 Or shall the masor (saw) magnify itself against Him that useth it? 1 As if the shevet (rod) should shake itself against them that lift it up, 1 or as if the matteh (staff) should lift up itself, 1 as if it were not etz. 1

Isaiah 37:23Whom hast thou insulted and made gidduf against? 1 And against whom hast thou raised thy voice, 1 and lifted up thine eyes marom? 1 Even against Kadosh Yisroel. 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 32:10-24

The Destruction of the Assyrians. ( b. c. 713.) 9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, 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… Read the whole commentary →

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