2 Chronicles 32 · Verse 1

2 Chronicles 32:1

After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2 Chronicles 32:1, King James Version

2 Chronicles 32:1 in other translations

BSBAfter all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
WEBAfter these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.
ASVAfter these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.
YLTAfter these things and this truth, come hath Sennacherib king of Asshur, yea, he cometh in to Judah, and encampeth against the cities of the bulwarks, and saith to rend them unto himself.
DARBYAfter these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to break into them.
BBENow after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force.
WebsterAfter these things, and their establishment, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.

What does 2 Chronicles 32:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2Ch 32:1-20. Sennacherib Invades Judah. 1. After these things, and the establishment thereof--that is, the restoration of the temple-worship. The precise date is given, 2Ki 18:13. Determined to recover the independence of his country, Hezekiah had decided to refuse to pay the tribute which his father had bound himself to pay to Assyria. Sennacherib ... entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities--The whole land was ravaged; the strong fortresses of Ashdod (Is 20:1) and Lachish had fallen; the siege of Libnah had commenced, when the king of Judah, doubting his ability to resist, sent to acknowledge his fault, and offer terms of submission by paying the tribute. The commencement of this Assyrian war was disastrous to Hezekiah (2Ki 18:13). But the misfortunes of the early period of the war are here passed over, as the historian hastens to relate the remarkable deliverance which God wrought for His kingdom of Judah.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

Sennacherib invades Judea, 2Chr 32:1. Hezekiah takes proper measures for the defense of his kingdom, 2Chr 32:2-6. His exhortation, 2Chr 32:7, 2Chr 32:8. Sennacherib sends a blasphemous message to Hezekiah, and to the people, 2Chr 32:9-15. His servants rail against God; and he and they blaspheme most grievously, 2Chr 32:16-19. Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah cry to God; he answers, and the Assyrians are destroyed, and Sennacherib is slain by his own sons, 2Chr 32:20, 2Chr 32:21. The Lord is magnified, 2Chr 32:22, 2Chr 32:23. Hezekiah's sickness and recovery, 2Chr 32:24. His ingratitude, 2Chr 32:25. His humiliation, 2Chr 32:26. His riches, 2Chr 32:27-30. His error relative to the Babylonish ambassadors, 2Chr 32:31. His acts and death, 2Chr 32:32, 2Chr 32:33. Verse 1 After these things - God did not permit this pious prince to be disturbed till he had completed the reformation which he had begun.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32:1-23
Those who trust God with their safety, must use proper means, else they tempt him. God will provide, but so must we also. Hezekiah gathered his people together, and spake comfortably to them. A believing confidence in God, will raise us above the prevailing fear of man. Let the good subjects and soldiers of Jesus Christ, rest upon his word, and boldly say, Since God is for us, who can be against us? By the favour of God, enemies are lost, and friends gained.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Chronicles 32:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַחֲרֵ֨י'a.cha.ReiafterH310
הַדְּבָרִ֤יםha.de.va.Rimthe mattersH1697
וְהָאֱמֶת֙ve.ha.'e.Metand the faithfulnessH571
הָאֵ֔לֶּהha.'E.leh<the> theseH428
בָּ֖אba'he cameH935
סַנְחֵרִ֣יבsan.che.RivSennacheribH5576
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
אַשּׁ֑וּר'a.ShurAssyriaH804
וַיָּבֹ֣אvai.ya.Vo'and he cameH935
בִֽיהוּדָ֗הvi.hu.Dahin JudahH3063
וַיִּ֙חַן֙vai.Yi.chanand he encampedH2583
עַל\־'al-onH5921
הֶעָרִ֣יםhe.'a.Rimthe citiesH5892
הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתha.be.tzu.Rot<the> fortifiedH1219
וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
לְבִקְעָ֥םle.vik.'Amto break into themH1234
אֵלָֽיו\׃'e.Lavto himselfH413

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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 32:1

  • 2 Kings 18:13-37

    Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house. At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. …

  • 2 Kings 18:11

    And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:

  • Micah 2:13

    The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.

  • 2 Kings 17:6

    In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

  • Isaiah 7:17-18

    The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

  • Isaiah 10:5-11

    O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? …

  • Isaiah 36:1-37:38

    Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field. Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder. And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? …

  • Isaiah 8:6-8

    Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

  • 2 Kings 15:19

    And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

  • Hosea 11:5

    He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:1-2

    It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon–tamar, which is En–gedi.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 Sennacherib invading Judah, Hezekiah fortifies himself, and encourages his people.
9 Against the blasphemies of Sennacherib, Hezekiah and Isaiah pray.
21 An angel destroys the host of the Assyrians.
24 Hezekiah praying in his sickness, God gives him a sign of recovery.
25 He waxing proud, is humbled by God.
27 His wealth and works.
31 His error in the ambassage of Babylon.
32 He dying, Manasseh succeeds him.

these things.
20:1,2; 2Ki 18:13-37; Isa 36:1-22
king of Assyria.
2Ki 15:19; 17:6; 18:11,19,20; Isa 7:17,18; 8:6-8; 10:5,6; Ho 11:5
win them. Heb. break them up.
Isa 10:7-11; 37:24,25; Mic 2:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 2 Chronicles 32:1

    After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:2

    And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

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2 Chronicles 32:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		DESPUÉS de estas cosas y de esta fidelidad, vino Sennachêrib rey de los Asirios, entró en Judá, y asentó campo contra las ciudades fuertes, y determinó de entrar en ellas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*Après ces choses et cette fidélité, Sankhérib, roi d’Assyrie, vint et entra en Judée, et campa contre les villes fortes, et il pensait en forcer l’entrée.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Nach diesen Dingen und dieser Treue kam Sanherib, der König von Assyrien; und er drang in Juda ein und lagerte sich wider die festen Städte, und er gedachte, sie für sich zu erobern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Post quæ et hujuscemodi veritatem, venit Sennacherib rex Assyriorum, et ingressus Judam, obsedit civitates munitas, volens eas capere.