"And his servants spake yet {more} against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah." — 2 Chronicles 32:16

2 Chronicles 32:16 · KJV

“And his servants spake yet {more} against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.”

— 2 Chronicles 32:16

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?

Verse 17

He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of {other} lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.

2 Chronicles 32 — Context

Who {was there} among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

And his servants spake yet {more} against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that {were} on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

Cross References

John 15:21

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

Psalms 73:9

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Job 15:25-26

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.