2 Chronicles 28:16

28:16 At that time King Ahaz asked the king¹ of Assyria for help.

2 Chronicles 28:20

28:20 King Tiglath-pileser² of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support.³

2 Chronicles 32:10

32:10 “This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?⁴

2 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Ahaz gathered riches⁵ from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

2 Chronicles 32:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

32:1 After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them.⁶

2 Chronicles 32:7

32:7 “Be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic⁷ because of the king of Assyria and this huge army that is with him! We have with us one who is stronger than those who are with him.⁸

2 Chronicles 32:11

32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power⁹ of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst!¹⁰

2 Chronicles 32:22

32:22 The Lord delivered Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem from the power of King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the other nations.¹¹ He made them secure on every side.¹²

2 Chronicles 33:11

33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose,¹³ bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 30:6

30:6 Messengers¹⁴ delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read:¹⁵ “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return¹⁶ to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.¹⁷

2 Chronicles 32:4

32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district.¹⁸ They reasoned,¹⁹ “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

2 Chronicles 32:9

32:9 Afterward King Sennacherib of Assyria, while attacking Lachish with all his military might, sent his messengers²⁰ to Jerusalem. The message was for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of²¹ Judah who were in Jerusalem. It read:

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger²² and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib²³ returned home humiliated.²⁴ When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons²⁵ struck him down with the sword.

¹tc Most Hebrew mss read the plural, “kings,” but one Hebrew ms, the LXX and Vulgate read the singular “king.” Note the singular in v. 20.

²tn Heb “Tilgath-pilneser,” a variant spelling of Tiglath-pileser.

³tn Heb “and he caused him distress and did not strengthen him.”

³tn Heb “On what are you trusting that [you] are living during the siege in Jerusalem.”

⁴tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).

⁵tn Heb “and he said to break into them for himself.”

⁶tn Or perhaps, “and don’t be discouraged.”

⁷tn Heb “for with us [is] a greater [one] than with him.”

⁷tn Heb “hand.”

⁸tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’

⁸tn Heb “and from the hand of all.”

⁹tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he led him from all around.” However, the present translation assumes an emendation to וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסָּבִיב (vayyanakh lahem missaviv, “and he gave rest to them from all around”). See 2 Chr 15:15 and 20:30.

⁹tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”

¹⁰tn Heb “the runners.”

¹¹tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

¹²tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

¹³tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

¹¹tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.

¹²tn Heb “land, saying.”

¹²tn Heb “servants.”

¹³tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.

¹³tn Or “an angel.”

¹⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”