Chronicles II 32:11

11 Does not Ezekias deceive you, to deliver you to death and famine and thirst, saying, The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

Chronicles II 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).

Chronicles II 32:11 In-Context

9 And afterward Sennacherim king of the Assyrians sent his servants to Jerusalem; and himself against Lachis, and all his army with him, and sent to Ezekias king of Juda, and to all Juda that in Jerusalem, saying,

10 Thus says Sennacherim king of the Assyrians, On what do ye trust, that ye will remain in the siege in Jerusalem?

11 Does not Ezekias deceive you, to deliver you to death and famine and thirst, saying, The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

12 Is not this Ezekias who has taken down his altars and his high places and has spoken to Juda and the dwellers in Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before this altar and burn incense upon it?

13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to all the nations of the countries? Could the gods of the nations of all the earth at all rescue their people out of my hand?