2 Chronicles 32:12

12 Didn't Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem: "You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it"?[a]

2 Chronicles 32:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 12-15. Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places
For the sense of this and the three following verses, see the notes on (See Gill on Isaiah 36:17) (See Gill on Isaiah 36:18) (See Gill on Isaiah 36:19) (See Gill on Isaiah 36:20)

2 Chronicles 32:12 In-Context

10 "This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: 'What are you trusting in, you who remain under the siege of Jerusalem?
11 Isn't Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, "The Lord our God will deliver us from the power of the king of Assyria"?
12 Didn't Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem: "You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it"?
13 " 'Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have any of the national gods of the lands been able to deliver their land from my power?
14 Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my power, that your God should be able to do the same for you?

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. 2 Kg 18:17-22; Isa 36:2-7
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