aCf. 2 Kings 18–20; Isa. 36–39. After these faithful deeds, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah and encamped against its fortified towns with the aim of taking them over.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אחרי
219
הדברים
261
והאמת
452
האלה
41
בא
3
סנחריב
330
מלךאשור
597
ויבא
19
ביהודה
32
ויחן
74
עלהערים
425
הבצרות
703
ויאמר
257
לבקעם
242
אליו
47
II Chronicles 32:2
Gematria: 1717
ויראיחזקיהוכיבאסנחריבופניולמלחמהעלירושלם
When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, intent on making war against Jerusalem,
A large force was assembled to stop up all the springs and the wadi that flowed through the land, for otherwise, they thought, the king of Assyria would come and find water in abundance.
He acted with vigor, rebuilding the whole breached wall, raising towers on it, and building another wall outside it. He fortified the Millo of the City of David, and made a great quantity of arms and shields.
“Be strong and of good courage; do not be frightened or dismayed by the king of Assyria or by the horde that is with him, for we have more with us than he has with him.
With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the ETERNAL our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” The people were encouraged by the speech of King Hezekiah of Judah.
Afterward, King Sennacherib of Assyria sent his officers to Jerusalem—he and all his staff being at Lachish—with this message to King Hezekiah of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem:
Word-by-Word Analysis
אחר
209
זה
12
שלח
338
סנחריב
330
מלךאשור
597
עבדיו
92
ירושלימה
601
והוא
18
עללכיש
460
וכלממשלתו
872
עמו
116
עליחזקיהו
246
מלך
90
יהודה
30
ועלכליהודה
186
אשר
501
בירושלם
588
לאמר
271
II Chronicles 32:10
Gematria: 3142
כהאמרסנחריבמלךאשורעלמהאתםבטחיםוישביםבמצורבירושלם
“Thus said King Sennacherib of Assyria: On what do you trust to enable you to endure a siege in Jerusalem?
But is not Hezekiah the one who removed your God’sbyour God’s Lit. “His.” shrines and altars and commanded the people of Judah and Jerusalem saying, ‘Before this one altar you shall prostrate yourselves, and upon it make your burnt offerings’?
Surely you know what I and my ancestors have done to the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands able to save their lands from me?
Which of all the gods of any of those nations whom my ancestors destroyed was able to save their people from me, that your God should be able to save you from me?
Now then, do not let Hezekiah delude you; do not let him seduce you in this way; do not believe him. For no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to save their people from me or from my ancestors—much less your God, to save you from me!”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ועתה
481
אלישיא
352
אתכם
461
חזקיהו
136
ואליסית
517
אתכם
461
כזאת
428
ואלתאמינו
544
לו
36
כילא
61
יוכל
66
כלאלוה
92
כלגוי
69
וממלכה
141
להציל
165
עמו
116
מידי
64
ומיד
60
אבותי
419
אף
81
כי
30
אלהיכם
106
לאיצילו
177
אתכם
461
מידי
64
II Chronicles 32:16
Gematria: 941
ועודדברועבדיועליהוההאלהיםועליחזקיהועבדו
His officers said still more things against the ETERNAL God and against Hezekiah—God’s servant.
He also wrote letters reviling the ETERNAL God of Israel, saying, “Just as the gods of the other nations of the earth did not save their people from me, so the God of Hezekiah will not save this people from me.”
GOD
sent an angel who annihilated every mighty warrior, commander, and officer in the army of the king of Assyria, and he returned in disgrace to his land. He entered the house of his god, and there some of his own offspring struck him down by the sword.
Then Hezekiah humbled himself where he had been arrogant, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and no wrath of GOD came on them during the reign of Hezekiah.
It was Hezekiah who stopped up the spring of water of Upper Gihon, leading it downward west of the City of David; Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
So too in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him to inquire about the sign that was in the land, when God forsook him in order to test him, to learn all that was in his mind.
The other events of Hezekiah’s reign, and his faithful acts, are recorded in the visions of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Hezekiah rested with his ancestors, and was buried on the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David. When he died, all the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem accorded him much honor. Manasseh, his son, succeeded him.