2 Chronicles 32:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you 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?

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יַשִּׁיא֩

nâshâʼ

H5377

“to deceive”

Verb, Hiphil, Jussive, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 16× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 3:13

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1425

to beguile, deceive - (Niphal) to be beguiled - (Hiphil) to beguile, deceive - (Qal) utterly (infinitif)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

32: words
21: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יַשִּׁיא֩ to deceive H5377 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יַשִּׁיא֩ to deceive H5377 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
12 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition
2 conjunctions
1 adverb
9 particles

Verb forms

יַשִּׁיא֩ Hiphil · Jussive
יַסִּ֨ית Hiphil · Jussive
תַּאֲמִ֣ינוּ Hiphil · Jussive
יוּכַ֗ל Qal · Imperfect
לְהַצִּ֥יל Hiphil · Infinitive Construct
יַצִּ֥ילוּ Hiphil · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מִיָּדִ֖י hand H3027 ×3
כָּל all H3605 ×2
לְהַצִּ֥יל to rescue H5337 ×2
אַל not H408 ×3
כִּי that H3588 ×2
לֹ֣א not H3808 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 55 words from the Hebrew and 56 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 32 Hebrew tokens and 50 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 32:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 5:2 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
Daniel 3:15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Isaiah 36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
1 Kings 22:22 Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
2 Kings 18:29 Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
2 Kings 19:10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 32:11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
John 19:10–11 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

Acts 19:26 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 32:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַתָּ֡ה אַל יַשִּׁיא֩ אֶתְכֶ֨ם חִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ וְאַל יַסִּ֨ית אֶתְכֶ֣ם כָּזֹאת֮ וְאַל תַּאֲמִ֣ינוּ לוֹ֒ כִּי לֹ֣א יוּכַ֗ל כָּל אֱל֨וֹהַ֙ כָּל גּ֣וֹי וּמַמְלָכָ֔ה לְהַצִּ֥יל עַמּ֛וֹ מִיָּדִ֖י וּמִיַּ֣ד אֲבוֹתָ֑י אַ֚ף כִּ֣י אֱֽלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם לֹא יַצִּ֥ילוּ אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִיָּדִֽי

Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you 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?

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 32:15 Septuagint · lemma form

νῦν μή ἀπατάω σύ εζεκιας καί μή πείθω σύ ποιέω κατά οὗτος καί μή πιστεύω αὐτός ὅτι οὐ μή δύναμαι ὁ θεός πᾶς ἔθνος καί βασιλεία ὁ σώζω ὁ λαός αὐτός ἐκ χείρ ἐγώ καί ἐκ χείρ πατήρ ἐγώ ὅτι ὁ θεός σύ οὐ μή σώζω σύ ἐκ χείρ ἐγώ

Now then, let not Ezekias deceive you, and let him not make you thus confident, and believe him not: for no god of any kingdom or nation is at all able to deliver his people out of my hand, or the hand of my fathers: therefore your God shall not deliver you out of my hand.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 32:15 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

Ver. 15. Now therefore let not Hezekiah.] See 2Ki 18:29.

How much less shall your God.] Prodigious blasphemy! And was not that of John Hunt, a a Popish pamphleteer, every whit as bad, when he said, The God of the Protestants is the most uncivil and evil mannered God of all those who have borne the names of gods upon the earth; yea, worse than Pan, god of the clowns, which can endure no ceremonies nor good manners at all! {a}

{a} Humble Appeal to King James, chap. 6.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 32:15. How much less shall your God deliver you — Seeing I have destroyed so many nations, and some of them stronger than you, in spite of all their gods, it is not probable that your God should defend you?

inasmuch as none of the others could defend their worshippers.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

When man hath prosperity, he swelleth in pride, and thinketh himself able to resist and overcome even God himself.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(15) Neither yet believe him.—And believe him not.

How much less . . . deliver you.—Rather, much less will your gods deliver you; or, much more will your gods not deliver you. (Comp. Isa_37:10-11.) According to ancient conceptions the gods of strong nations were strong gods. Now the Assyrians had vanquished stronger nations than Judah, and therefore, as they ignorantly supposed, stronger deities than the God of Judah. (Some Hebrew MSS. and all the versions have the verb in the singular, which gives the sense, “much less will your god deliver you.”)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

15. neither yet believe him] R.V. neither believe ye him.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Seeing I have destroyed so many nations, and some of them stronger than you, in spite of all their gods, it is not probable that your God should defend you, which none of the rest could do for their people.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The urgency of Sennacherib"s appeal to the people was of course his way of trying to save work of actual siege, fighting, etc., to himself and his army. The how much less of the message of Sennacherib probably meant that his estimate of the your God i.e. the God of Israel, was measured partly by the comparative smallness and unwarlike character of the nation of Judah, when set side by side with the great heathen nations, and partly by the spiritual and invisible character and being of God, little intelligible to such a one as Sennacherib.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 32 words (21 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâshâʼ (“to deceive”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word nâshâʼ carries the sense “to deceive.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 3:13, which shares the word «to deceive», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “hand” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«יַשִּׁיא֩» is a Hiphil Jussive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 32 Hebrew ↔ 50 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 21 words in this verse.
“hand” occurs 3× in this single verse.
21 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 32 words in this verse.