2 Chronicles 32:11

11 Is not Hezekiah urging you to give you [up] to die by starvation and thirst, saying, "Yahweh our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?

2 Chronicles 32:11 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 32:11

Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die
by famine, and by thirst
Suggesting that would be their case if they did not surrender:

saying, the Lord our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king
of Assyria? (See Gill on Isaiah 36:15).

2 Chronicles 32:11 In-Context

9 After this Sennacherib the king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (now he and all his armies with him [were] against Lachish) to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all of Judah that [was] in Jerusalem, saying,

10 "Thus says Sennacherib the king of Assyria: 'On what [are] you relying that [you are] dwelling in siege works in Jerusalem?

11 Is not Hezekiah urging you to give you [up] to die by starvation and thirst, saying, "Yahweh our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?

12 Has not Hezekiah himself removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, "You must bow down before one altar and upon it you must make offerings"?

13 Do you not know what I have done, I and my ancestors, to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of all the lands at all able to save their land from my hand?