2 Chronicles 32:1

After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came and entered Judah. He camped to attack the fortified cities, which he intended to capture for himself.

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After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

In Context

2When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to fight against Jerusalem,

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria. He put them in Halah, at the Habor River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:13Then in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2 Chronicles 20:1It came about after this, that the people of Moab and Ammon, and with them some Meunites came against Jehoshaphat to do battle. + 20:1 The reading some Meunites represents a correction to the Hebrew text, which reads, some Ammonites . It is thought that Meunites was original, and that a copyist changed it to some Ammonites . But this last reading makes no sense, because Ammonites have already been mentioned in this verse. However, different versions deal with this problem in different ways.

Isaiah 7:17Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house days unlike any since Ephraim seceded from Judah—he will bring on you the king of Assyria.” 1

Isaiah 10:5Woe to the Assyrian, the club of my anger, the rod by whom I wield my fury! 1

Isaiah 36:1In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 32:1

This chapter continues and concludes the history of the reign of Hezekiah. I. The descent which Sennacherib made upon him, and the care he took to fortify himself, his city, and the minds of his people, against that enemy, ver. 1-8 . II. The insolent blasphemous letters and messages which Sennacherib sent him, ver. 9-19 . III. The real answer God gave to Sennacherib's blasphemies, and to Hezekiah's prayers, in the total rout of the Assyrian army, to the shame of Sennacherib and the honour of Hezekiah, ver. 20-23 .… Read the whole commentary →

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