2 Chronicles 32:11-12
Context32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power 1 of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! 2 32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 3 the Lord’s 4 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
1 tn Heb “hand.”
2 tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The
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.
4 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the