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2 Chronicles 32:13

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What does 2 Chronicles 32:13 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:13 — American Standard Version

Context — 2 Chronicles 32

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
10Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the siege in Jerusalem?
11Doth not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
12Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye burn incense?
13Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?
14Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
15Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?
16And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
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What do historical commentaries say?

Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“The author of Chronicles compresses into 13 verses the history which occupies in Kings a chapter and a half (2 Kings 18:17-19; where see the notes). 2 Chronicles 32:10 In the siege - Perhaps “in straitness” (compare Jeremiah 19:9). Jerusalem is thought by some to have been not so much besieged at this time, as distressed and straitened for supplies, because the Assyrians were masters of the open country. 2 Chronicles 32:13 fathers - i. e. “predecessors.” Sennacherib really belonged to a dynasty that had only furnished one king before himself. 2 Chronicles 32:22 Guided them ... - A slight alteration of the existing text gives the sense - “gave them rest round about;” a common expression in…”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“I and my: Kg2 15:29, Kg2 17:5, Kg2 17:6, Kg2 19:11-13, Kg2 19:17, Kg2 19:18; Isa 10:9, Isa 10:10, Isa 10:14, Isa 37:12, Isa 37:13, Isa 37:18-20; Dan 4:30, Dan 4:37, Dan 5:19 were the gods: Ch2 32:19; Kg2 18:33-35, Kg2 19:18, Kg2 19:19; Psa 115:3-8; Isa 44:8-10; Jer 10:11, Jer 10:12, Jer 10:16; Act 19:26; Co1 8:4 2 Chronicles 32:14”
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