13Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
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Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? …
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? …
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? …
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-23)This story of the rage and blasphemy of Sennacherib, Hezekiah’s prayer, and the deliverance of Jerusalem by the destruction of the Assyrian army, we had more at large in the book of Kings, 2 Kgs. 18:1-19:37 It is contracted here, yet large enough to show these three things:— I. The impiety and malice of the church’s enemies. Sennacherib has his hands full in besieging Lachish (2 Chron. 32:9), but…
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