2 Kings 18:32-35

32 until I come and take you away ¹to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die." But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us."

33 '²Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

34 '³Where are the gods of Hamath and ⁴Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and ⁵Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

35 'Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their land from my hand, ⁶that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?' "

2 Kings 18:32-35 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 18

This chapter begins with the good reign of Hezekiah king of Judah, the reformation he made in the kingdom, and the prosperity that attended him when Israel was carried captive, 2Ki 18:1-12 and gives an account of the siege of Jerusalem by the king of Assyria, and of the distress Hezekiah was in, and the hard measures he was obliged to submit unto, 2Ki 18:13-18 and of the reviling and blasphemous speech of Rabshakeh, one of the generals of the king of Assyria, urging the Jews to a revolt from their king, 2Ki 18:19-37.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 8:7-9; Deuteronomy 11:12
• 2. 2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 10:10, 11
• 3. 2 Kings 19:13
• 4. Isaiah 10:9
• 5. 2 Kings 17:24
• 6. Psalms 2:1-3; Psalms 59:7

Footnotes

• [a]. In 2 Kin 17:24, "Avva"
• [b]. Lit "who have"