2 Chronicles 32:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Know 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?

I and my

Daniel 5:19

Were the gods

General references

2 Kings 19:11

Bible References

I and my

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

and the king answered and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?"

And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled.

Were the gods

And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."

Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."

And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."

General references

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?