2 Chronicles 32:10-12
Context32:10 “This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege? 1 32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power 2 of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! 3 32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 4 the Lord’s 5 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”


[32:10] 1 tn Heb “On what are you trusting that [you] are living during the siege in Jerusalem.”
[32:11] 3 tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The
[32:12] 3 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.
[32:12] 4 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the